“My general feeling is that the teams have been pretty cooperative. We’ve had five camps now and we haven’t really been told no by a European club that we wanted to call in one of
these U-23 player from. That hasn’t always been the case with all the MLS clubs. I think people have a little bit of a feeling that it’s only going to happen in Europe, and that’s
not the case. It happens with the MLS teams as well.”
-- U.S. under-23 men's national team coach
Jason Kreis on getting players released from their clubs, which are under no
obligation to release them, even during FIFA windows, for age-group teams. (
SBI
Soccer)
This was a surprise to me. Not what I expected.