US men’s national team reveals World Cup roster for home tournament
Pochettino’s roster mixed 13 veterans with about half debutants, putting Pulisic, McKennie and Adams at the center of a high-pressure home World Cup bet.
At a fan event in New York City on Tuesday, the U.S. men’s national team locked in the roster that will carry the program into next month’s World Cup across the United States, Canada and Mexico, with Christian Pulisic, Weston McKennie, Tyler Adams and Matt Turner headlining a squad built for a tournament played under a national spotlight. Mauricio Pochettino’s selection also included Sergiño Dest, Chris Richards, Antonee Robinson, Gio Reyna, Ricardo Pepi, Tim Weah and Folarin Balogun, names that now define the team’s final shape as the start of the tournament approaches.
The list made clear how much Pochettino is betting on a mix of experience and newness. Roughly half of the roster will be making its World Cup debut, while 13 players are veterans, a split that gives the United States fresh legs but also asks a young core to absorb the demands of the biggest stage in soccer. It is a group with recognizable talent, but also one that will have to settle quickly as chemistry, fitness and tactical roles become fixed in the final stretch of preparation.
The stakes are larger than a typical roster announcement. The United States has never won a World Cup, and hosting the event adds another layer of expectation for a program trying to turn visibility into results. Pulisic and Adams are already the public faces of that challenge, and the roster confirmed that Pochettino is leaning on them to help guide a team that will be judged not just by style, but by whether it can deliver when the pressure rises.
The schedule comes fast. The United States will open group play against Paraguay on June 12 before facing Australia and Turkey in Group D. That path leaves little margin for slow starts or indecision, and it makes the roster reveal more than a formality. It is the first hard answer to the question of how the U.S. intends to compete at home: with a core of familiar stars, a wave of first-timers and a coach willing to trust that combination on soccer’s biggest stage.
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