Germany's men's national soccer team flew from Frankfurt to Boston on Monday for a mission that most of their countrymen don't understand.
BRENTWOOD, TN - OCTOBER 10: Christian Pulisic of the United States shoots the ball during USMNT Training at Brentwood Academy on October 10, 2023 in Brentwood, Tennessee. .Germany’s men’s national soccer team flew from Frankfurt to Boston on Monday for a mission that most of their countrymen don’t understand.
The World Cup remains distant; but this, an otherwise meaningless friendly, might be the USMNT’s only chance to test itself against a European giant between now and March 2026 — less than three months before its World Cup opener. They are now so full, especially in Europe, that U.S. Soccer will struggle to arrange the type of tests it craves. Next summer's Copa America will provide the USMNT with top-tier South American competition. But Europe, where eight of the
It's also a strange one. Germany has won just one of its last six games. The rotten run, after a second straight World Cup flame-out, led the DFB tofor the first time in program history. Julian Nagelsmann soon replaced Hansi Flick. A Tuesday training session in Foxborough, Massachusetts, was Nagelsmann's first in charge of the team.
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