US Soccer Head Coach was interviewed as part of the release of the list of 30 players invited to World Cup training later this month. Lot’s of Coach speak but he does address some of the questions about the forwards who were, and weren’t chosen:

On what Edson Buddle and Herculez Gomez did to earn a spot on the preliminary roster:
“Both Edson and Herculez have had a very good season. Both have helped their teams a great deal. Edson has been the hottest goal scorer in MLS and has helped the Galaxy get off to a great start. Herculez was an important player with Puebla and scored a lot of goals. We feel that both of them have shown enough for us to take a look at them as we start the camp.”

On José Torres and his club commitments overlapping with a portion of the training camp:
“We will continue to monitor the next series obviously between Pachuca and Toluca. Those games are both scheduled on the 12th and 15th (of May) and then we’ll assess the situation following that series.”

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Soccer America, among others, chimed in with a story Selection process cruel to U.S. heroes. Key take away?

– Bradley took 21 foreign-based players and nine MLS players.
– It’s a relatively young team with 15 players 25 or younger on June 12 when the USA opens against England. Only five of the 30 players are 30 or older.
– Only seven players have played in the World Cup. DaMarcus Beasley and Landon Donovan have played in two.
– Davies and Casey were two of only six players from the U.S. team that finished second at the 2009 Confederations Cup who did not make the list of 30 players.
– The most notable absentee, of course, is Freddy Adu, whose stock has fallen so low that his exclusion from Tuesday’s list hardly received any mention.

Editor’s note – I for one am happy to see Charlie Davies left home. He is responsible for the situation he is in by breaking curfew as well as being involved in the accident that led to the death of one of his companions. Quit your whining Charlie. As Grant Wahl notes on Twitter – “Davies is understandably emotional. But fact remains that Sochaux could not have prevented US from calling him into pre-WC camp”