Good morning! Brian Sciaretta, who will be covering the Olympic men’s soccer competition for Soccer America in France, examines the USA’s strengths and weaknesses ahead of its return to the men’s soccer tournament for the first time since 2008. Olympic men’s soccer has served as a springboard to big roles at the World Cup two years later for many U.S. players: Alexi Lalas (1992), Landon Donovan and John O’Brien (2000) and Michael Bradley and Jozy Altidore (2008), to name a few. With the USMNT in need of reinforcements for the 2026 World Cup, the Paris Olympics present a huge opportunity for players like Gaga Slonina and Tanner Tessmann.
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