Bradley's B's look like A's

Despite the fact that Bradley has kept many of these players out of the national team pool, a few on the U.S. Gold Cup squad are showing that they still no how to swim. And it's no surprise to TYH readers that guys like Robbie Rogers, Benny Feilhaber, Stuart Holden and Santino Quaranta are making a strong case for inclusion in the 2010 World Cup squad. Ok, so Grenada was a joke. But Honduras certainly tested this young team with its speed and aggressiveness. Result 2-0.

Here are the highlights:

Keeping the competition level in perspective, this is why I was calling for Bradley to get these guys more minutes. It's hard to tell how good these guys really are. I mean, Marvin Chavez is no Luis Fabiano. But hopefully a good showing will get some of these guys a ticket to South Africa (or at least to a few meaningless qualifiers or exhibitions).

And for those of you who think I'm just jumping late on the bandwagon, check out this post from a year ago. I said this about Robbie Rogers:

I have seen the future of American soccer and his name is alliterative. Rogers should be in camp. He should get minutes. He’s young, but look what the youngsters brought back in the 2002 World Cup. Sometimes you gotta go with the fearless youngster over the old timers (I’m looking at you Eddie Lewis).