Believe he's engaged to a US citizen right? So he's got to be relatively close considering how convoluted and drawn out our immigration process is. Given that he has shown flashes at time, he's still gotta have the massive season you're predicting to put himself in contention for a US look IMO.

Take your pick of any of the 10 center mids we have. What are 2 things we lack? Speed and Creativity. He offers both.

Doesn't look like he'll get citizenship til 2015 though.

I believe he's less than 3 years away from his American citizenship (unless he moves abroad)

He's good. He's one of those players that can just create magic

Which is good because Nagbe can't get called up for a few more years

The key is is that he doesn't receive offers from overseas that are too tempting. He must stay in the US to get citizenship

Porter was the coach of that team if I am correct. It was his in game decisions; not Klinsmann's.

Porter made mistakes that happens in a career. He is a talented coach, and hopefully he learned from the Olympic team debacle

I agree though something is to be said about Klinsmann having a say in roster decisions.....though none of us know how much say. The backline was the big problem, though there were a few decisions that came down on Porter himself which had a big effect on the outcome. 1. Not subbing off the CM's in the Cuba game early....they had the game in the bag early, given the short amount of rest, the CM's needed to come off the field (Diskerud looked winded in the last game, still played really well though) 2. After Agudelo went down, starting his boy Bunbury over Boyd, they were doing much of nothing in the Canada game till Boyd came on for Bunbury (though the loss can be shouldered on Hamid some for his lack of dominating in the air inside the box). 3. The Guate game was a mess.....not taking of Hamid after the 1st goal...clearly his injury was affecting his play, subbing on Stephens with the lead instead of Jeffrey or someone more defensive minded...that last goal was because both Diskerud and Stephens stepped to the ball and left the space in front of the defense open for the player to come up and take the shot. Those were the mistakes....though it happens to every coach at every level across the world....the U23 failure came down to poor defense and very poor keeping.