In the midst of the preparation that the United States national team heading to the Copa America 2024 from Washington, this Monday they spoke to the media Yunus Musah and Cameron Carter-Vickers, who among other topics took the time to respond to their feelings ahead of the friendly that will measure them against their counterpart from Colombia next Saturday.
In the first instance, the AC Milan midfielder surprised with his fluent Spanish and highlighted: “Colombia is a very complicated rival. It is seen that every game they play they put a lot of intensity. They are very physical, especially their defense, and I think they have a lot of talent in attack because of players like Luis Díaz. This match is going to help us a lot in our preparation.”.
“To see how we are. It’s facing a very good opponent and it’s going to bring out the best in us.“, he mentioned to complete his idea regarding Colombians. When asked about the two preparation games and the second being Brazil, Musah added: “It’s something really important for us because you become a better player against the best. Before the Copa América it is fantastic and it will be a great experience to face top players”.
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For his part, Carter-Vickers also gave his opinion regarding Néstor Lorenzo’s team and how dangerous they are: “It is a very good team, they have very good players and there are big clubs around the world. We will try to have a good presentation and be clear about how we want to play the tournament (Copa América). We want to get the most out of these two games.”.
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About what the competition between Conmebol and Concacaf represents, in a time when they will have no more official tournaments leading up to the 2026 World CupCarter-Vickers opined: “I believe that the process should be focused on performance and we do it every day in training, we try to have the highest performance possible”.
For the USMNT there will be two preparation matches in Maryland (Colombia on Saturday, June 8) and Orlando (Brazil on Wednesday, June 12), but The start of the Copa América will be on Sunday the 23rd against its counterpart in Bolivia from the AT&T Stadium in Arlington and that is where they must have a presentation that lives up to the demands to head to the quarterfinals.
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