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Reyna returns, Adams, Wright & Banks omitted | USMNT March roster reaction (Soccer 3/17)

·1 hr 6 min·4 clips

Pochettino says the U.S. needs eight games and four more friendlies to get ready to win.

The show opens with a grin and gets straight to the roster news. Jimmy Conrad, Tony Meola, and Johnny Bornstein frame it as a major U.S. Men's National Team checkpoint because this is the last roster Mauricio Pochettino can announce before he has to name his World Cup team. The panel immediately starts sorting the surprises. They work through the incoming and missing names, including Gio Reyna's return, Tyler Adams' injury absence, and the other midfield battles that still feel wide open. Johnny Bornstein likes the Reyna call. He says Reyna keeps delivering when he puts on a U.S. jersey, points to the November and December camp window as another example, and argues that the fan connection and badge-wearing attitude still matter when he is in a U.S. shirt. Christian Roldan gets similar praise. Bornstein values his leadership, his club play, and the way he has handled recent national-team stints, especially with a World Cup coming up. The conversation then shifts back to the midfield pool. The hosts walk through the roster mix, note how tightly the spots are being contested, and react to the injury and selection notes around players like Zendejas, Diego Luna, and Eunice Musa. The tone stays casual. The room keeps tossing questions around, correcting itself, and building one thought on top of another the way a real soccer group chat does when the roster just drops. There is some harmless teasing. The pre-show banter about Charlie Davies, Johnny Bornstein's green shirt, and TST gives the opening stretch a loose, familiar rhythm before the talk narrows back to national-team business. Nobody stays on the rails for long, and that is part of the appeal. The crew keeps coming back to the same practical question: who belongs in the World Cup picture, and which players are still fighting for one of the last places. The episode closes on a future-facing note. They mention the new U.S. kits, the next Thursday show, and the live watch-along at Football Factory at Legends in Midtown Manhattan on March 28 at 3:30 p.m. Eastern, so the roster chat spills into the next gathering instead of ending cleanly. It ends with the room still in motion. That fits a show built on live reactions, half-finished sentences, and the sense that soccer news is always one more conversation away from becoming an argument.

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A lively roster reaction that stays practical, human, and engaged with the selection stakes.

The episode gets strongest when Jimmy Conrad, Tony Miola, and Johnny Bornstein move past the roster names and into what they mean for the team.

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Need the quickest human read on Pochettino's last USMNT roster before the World Cup list?

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