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The United States men's nationalist squad roster for nan 2026 FIFA World Cup was officially revealed astatine Pier 17 successful Manhattan connected Tuesday afternoon, and nan 26 men representing nan Stars and Stripes are group to show retired connected location ungraded adjacent month.
However, location were immoderate cardinal absences from nan roster, which created rather nan buzz online aft it was leaked complete Memorial Day weekend.
For many, 2 cardinal snubs for Mauricio Pochettino’s first World Cup roster were successful nan midfield, arsenic Diego Luna and Tanner Tessman weren’t among nan 26 men connected nan shape astatine Pier 17.
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The U.S. Men's National Team poses during nan announcement of nan 2026 World Cup roster successful New York connected May 26, 2026. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)
Tessman did suffer a musculus strain earlier this period while playing for Lyon, his nine successful France, though it wasn’t expected to impact his expertise to participate successful nan World Cup. Many believed nan 24-year-old, who had played successful nan past six Team USA matches nether Pochettino, had a awesome chance of making nan squad arsenic a protect midfielder.
Instead, only Tyler Adams, who captained nan USMNT successful 2022 during nan Qatar World Cup, is among nan protect midfielders connected nan roster.
Even much surprising, though, was Luna, nan Real Salt Lake prima who has shown greatness successful position of scoring connected nan world stage, while besides providing a reliable quality astir his crippled that nan World Cup calls for. In fact, Luna was viewed arsenic a virtual fastener considering Nike utilized him during promotional ads for nan World Cup, though U.S. Soccer ne'er signed disconnected connected who they would use.
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Luna is simply a instrumentality favorite, but Pochettino went pinch different attacking midfielders successful nan end.
Others who were among those considered arsenic a anticipation of making nan squad but didn’t were midfielder Yunus Musah, who played successful nan 2022 World Cup for nan U.S., arsenic did striker Josh Sargent. Aidan Morris and 19-year-old Zavier Gozo were besides near out.
Christian Pulisic poses pinch his jersey during nan United States World Cup roster uncover successful New York City connected May 26, 2026. (Adam Hunger/Getty Images)
But Pochettino was looking for nan 26 correct players, alternatively than nan champion ones, to correspond nan U.S. connected location ungraded for nan first clip since 1994, and nan first clip successful history that FIFA will person matches played successful 3 different countries. Canada and Mexico will besides big matches, arsenic each of North America welcomes nan champion 48 teams successful nan world nether a caller format that includes an other knockout round.
Finally, it's worthy noting that substitutions to rosters tin beryllium made by June 1, meaning they still person a chance of being changed earlier nan first lucifer against Paraguay astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood, California, connected June 12.
Here is who will beryllium playing for nan USMNT successful nan 2026 FIFA World Cup:
GOALIES
- #1: Matt Turner, New England Revolution (2nd World Cup)
- #24: Matt Freese, New York City FC (1st)
- #25: Chris Brady, Chicago Fire (1st)
STRIKERS
- #9 Ricardo Pepi, PSV (1st)
- #19 Haji Wright, Coventry City (2nd)
- #20 Folarin Balogun, AS Monaco (1st)
USMNT guardant Haji Wright poses pinch his jersey during nan announcement of nan USMNT 2026 World Cup roster successful New York connected May 26, 2026. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)
MIDFIELDERS
- #4 Tyler Adams, AFC Bournemouth (2nd)
- #8 Weston McKennie, Juventus (2nd)
- #14 Sebastian Berhalter, Vancouver Whitecaps (1st)
- #15 Cristian Roldan, Seattle Sounders (2nd)
ATTACKING MIDFIELDER/WINGERS
- #7 Gio Reyna, Borussia Mönchengladbach (1st)
- #10 Christian Pulisic, AC Milan (2nd)
- #11 Brenden Aaronson, Leeds United (2nd)
- #17 Malik Tillman, Bayer Leverkusen (1st)
- #21 Tim Weah, Marseille (2nd)
- #26 Alex Zendejas, Club América (1st)
Mauricio Pochettino, caput coach of nan United States men's shot team, poses pinch Fox Sports pundits during nan U.S. World Cup roster uncover successful New York City connected May 26, 2026. (Ira L. Black/USSF/Getty Images)
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DEFENDERS
- #2 Sergiño Dest, PSV (2nd)
- #3 Chris Richards, Crystal Palace (1st)
- #5 Antonee Robinson, Fulham (2nd)
- #6 Auston Trusty, Celtic (1st)
- #12 Miles Robinson, FC Cincinnati (1st)
- #13 Tim Ream, Charlotte FC (2nd)
- #16 Alex Freeman, Villarreal (1st)
- #18 Max Arfsten, Columbus Crew (1st)
- #22 Mark McKenzie, Toulouse (1st)
- #23 Joe Scally, Borussia Mönchengladbach (2nd)
This group will return connected Paraguay connected June 12, followed by matches against Australia (June 19 successful Seattle) and Turkiye (June 25 successful Los Angeles) for their Group D play.
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Scott Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital.
