Yanks At Home: Gold Cup Edition

Gold Cup rosters have been officially turned in and are available for all kinds of examination. First I'll take a look at the MLS-based Yanks who made the roster for this summer and then I'll take a look at some of the other MLS-based players who made the squads for their respective countries.

The 6 MLS Yanks heading to this summers Gold Cup are hardly a surprising list. The biggest surprises really are more in the home-based players who were left out.

Charlie Davies was getting a lot of coverage as he is second in the league in goals scored this far in although with a recent hamstring injury it seemed unlikely he would actually make it. After seeing what Bob had to say it seemed unlikely he would have made the cut even if he was fully healthy. He's on his way back but he's still not quite there.

Teal Bunbury was also left out and Bob basically attributed that to a less than stellar showing in recent weeks which is fair enough but I still have a hard time believing it makes more sense to bring in the 28 year old rookie Wondolowski rather than Teal. Then again Wondolowski probably gives us the better squad now; which is where the question becomes which is more important current success or training the youth? Jay Demerit also may have been expected to make the squad but was left off, most likely due to an injury plagued season in Vancouver.

The players who did make the roster were GK Nick Rimando (filling in for Brad Guzan at backup to the backup GK while Brad Guzan gets married), D Tim Ream (the question is more of whether he would get significant playing time rather than whether he would make the team), M Landon Donovan (one of the first names on Bob's roster for sure), M Benny Feilhaber, M Robbie Rogers, F Juan Agudelo, and F Chris Wondolowski.

Of interest to some of you is the foreigners who we'll be playing against this summer. As I've been focusing on MLS here is a round-up of all the MLS-based foreigners in this years Gold Cup

Canada

D Andre Hainault

D Will Johnson

D Dejan Jakovic

M Julian De Guzman

F Dwayne de Rosario

Costa Rica

F Alvaro Saborio

Cuba

Noone

El Salvador

D Steve Purdy

F Arturo Alvarez

Grenada

M Shalrie Joseph

M Craig Rocastle

Guadaloupe

M Stephane Auvray

Guatemala

M Marco Pappa

F Carlos Ruiz

Honduras
M Roger Espinoza

Jamaica

GK Donovan Ricketts

D Shavar Thomas

D Jermaine Taylor

D Dicoy Williams

D Tyrone Marshall

M Jevaughn Watson

F Dane Richards

F Ryan Johnson

Mexico

D Rafa Marquez

Panama

Noone

All of those players will miss a handful of games this summer for their club teams while they are away on National team duty.