{"id":69215,"date":"2026-03-17T14:58:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/mauricio-pochettinos-latest-usmnt-roster-signals-door-is-still-open-for-world-cup-hopefuls\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:58:05","slug":"mauricio-pochettinos-latest-usmnt-roster-signals-door-is-still-open-for-world-cup-hopefuls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/mauricio-pochettinos-latest-usmnt-roster-signals-door-is-still-open-for-world-cup-hopefuls\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauricio Pochettino\u2019s latest USMNT roster signals door is \u2018still open\u2019 for World Cup hopefuls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gio Reyna is in the squad for friendlies against Belgium and Portugal, while top prospect Noahkai Banks hasn\u2019t yet decided if he\u2019ll represent the US or Germany<\/p>\n<p>Mauricio Pochettino made clear Tuesday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/17\/usmnt-squad-belgium-portugal-friendlies-world-cup\">his 27-man squad<\/a> is not a carbon copy of his expected roster for the 2026 World Cup. There will be cuts and corresponding recalls made from the roster for the friendlies against Belgium and Portugal at the end of the month in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>The latest roster includes four goalkeepers and 10 changes from the squad that notched impressive wins over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/nov\/18\/usmnt-uruguay-friendly-sebastian-berhalter-alex-freeman\">Uruguay<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/nov\/15\/usmnt-paraguay-gio-reyna-friendly\">Paraguay<\/a> in November. Ultimately, the US men\u2019s national team boss is trying to complete his assessments of several players, whether they\u2019re mainstays at their clubs or struggling to see the field often enough for his liking.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/17\/usmnt-roster-friendlies-gio-reyna-noahkai-banks-world-cup-bubble\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gio Reyna is in the squad for friendlies against Belgium and Portugal, while top prospect Noahkai Banks hasn\u2019t yet decided if he\u2019ll represent the US or Germany Mauricio Pochettino made clear Tuesday that his 27-man squad is not a carbon copy of his expected roster for the 2026 World Cup. There will be cuts and &#8230; <a title=\"Mauricio Pochettino\u2019s latest USMNT roster signals door is \u2018still open\u2019 for World Cup hopefuls\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/mauricio-pochettinos-latest-usmnt-roster-signals-door-is-still-open-for-world-cup-hopefuls\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mauricio Pochettino\u2019s latest USMNT roster signals door is \u2018still open\u2019 for World Cup hopefuls\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}