USA-Germany Report Card

• by Paul Kennedy  @pkedit, Sep 28, 2009

[UNDER-20 WORLD CUP] Soccer America's Paul Kennedy grades the U.S. players in Saturday's 3-0 loss to Germany at the Under-20 World Cup in Suez.

U.S. Player Ratings (Club) Age
STARTERS:
3 Brian Perk (UCLA) 20
3 Gerson Mayen (Chivas USA) 20
4 Gale Agbossoumonde (Miami FC) 17
3 Ike Opara (Wake Forest Univ.) 20
3 Kyle Davies (FC Dallas) 20
3 Dillon Powers (Univ. of Notre Dame) 18
4 Jared Jeffrey (Club Brugge, GER) 19
3 Mikkel Diskerud (Stabaek, NOR) 18
5 Tony Taylor (no club) 20
2 Brian Ownby (Univ. of Virginia) 19
2 Brek Shea (FC Dallas) 19
SUBSTITUTES:
3 Jorge Flores (Chivas USA) 20
4 Bryan Arguez (Hertha Berlin, GER) 20
4 Dilly Duka (no club) 20
(1=bad; 5-average; 10=excellent)