The USMNT were visited by three former internationals this week.
Tottenham Hotspur’s talented young defender Cameron Carter-Vickers was handed his first call-up to the USMNT this month by former Spurs striker and current US coach Jurgen Klinsmann.
The 18-year-old may have been born in Southend but he has represented the USA at all levels from under-18 up as his dad is former NBA basketball player Howard Carter.
Cameron Carter-Vickers USA U20 squad
This week the USMNT were visited by some soccer legends of the past, Gregg Berhalter, Josh Wolff and Frankie Hejduk, in a bid to inspire Klinsmann’s players ahead of the World Cup qualifiers with Mexico and Costa Rica this week.
Klinsmann believes that the visit will have been a huge boost for a player like Carter-Vickers. He told MLS Soccer:
Frankie Hejduk celebrates scoring for USA
“Put yourself in the mindset of our younger players.
“Cameron Carter-Vickers comes through the ranks at Tottenham Hotspur and he’s on the way to kind of becoming a senior national team player, and he was just looking at them with big eyes and saying, ‘Wow, look at these stories.’
“So it’s important that older players connect to the younger players and tell them what it means to them and the feelings they have.”
against Mexico in Chonju June 17, 2002.
There is no doubt that the Spurs defender is going places fast.
Learning from the American players who have been there and done it will be huge for the Spurs teenager – as will the challenge of playing international football.
He is only young but he looks a future star for both the US and Spurs. Experiences like this can only help sculpt him for success.
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