[USA-BARBADOS] With his team comfortably ahead in their 2010 World Cup qualifying series, U.S national team head coach
Bob Bradley has excused 10 players from the second leg with Barbados Sunday at the Kensington Oval outside Bridgetown (TV: ESPN Classic, live, 3 pm ET).
The 10 departed
players are
Brian Ching (Houston Dynamo),
Clint Dempsey (Fulham),
Steve
Cherundulo (Hannover 96),
Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy),
Brad Guzan (Chivas USA),
Frankie Hejduk (Columbus Crew),
Maurice Edu (Toronto FC),
Sacha Kljestan (Chivas
USA),
Pablo Mastroeni (Colorado Rapids) and
Matt Reis (New England Revolution).
Among the expected
replacements are
John Thorrington,
Chris Rolfe and
Chad Barrett of the Chicago
Fire and
Drew Moor of FC Dallas.
The U.S. began training in Miami on Tuesday in preparation for the second leg and will depart for Bridgetown on
Friday.