USA vs. France: Starting XI & Lineup Notes

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USA vs. France: Starting XI & Lineup Notes

The game tonight will be U.S. Olympian men’s soccer Team Starting XI vs.

 

LINEUP NOTES
U.S. Olympic Men’s Soccer Team Vs. France
2024 Olympic Men’s Soccer Tournament Match No. 1
July 24, 2024
Stade de Marseille; Marseille, France
Kickoff: 3 p.m. ET on USA Network, Telemundo and Peacock
Social Media: @USYNT on X and Instagram; U.S. Soccer on Facebook, the U.S. Soccer App

The current U.S. Olympic Men’s Soccer Team Starter XI vs. France:1-Patrick Schulte 2-Nathan Harriel 3-Walkerzimmerman 5-John Tolkin. 6-Gianluca Busio, 7-Kevin Pedes, 8-Tanner Tessemann (Capt. ) 11-Paxten Aaronson (Capt. ) 12-Miles Robinson, 13-Duncan McGuire, 14-Djordje Milutiovic

Substitutes: 18-Gaga Slonina, 4-Maximilian Dietz, 9-Griffin Yow, 10-Taylor Booth, 15-Benjamin Cremaschi, 16-Jack McGlynn, 17-Caleb Wiley

GAME NOTES

  • Start XI Cap numbers for Under-23 (including the game): Tessmann (11) and Mihailovic (10), Harriel (8), Tolkin (8), Busio (7), Aaronson (6), McGuire (6), Zimmerman (5), Schulte (4), Paredes (3), Robinson (3)
  • Starting XI senior U.S. Men’s National Team cap numbers: Zimmerman (42), Robinson (29), Mihailovic (11), Busio (13), Tolkin (4), Paredes (3), Tessmann (2), Aaronson (1), McGuire (1), Schulte (1), Harriel (0)
  • This is a great opportunity to the U.S. This is the first time that males have competed in the Olympics in the span of 5,824 hours. When the last time that the USA participated was at the same stage where they competed in Beijing 2008, when they were defeated 2:1 by Nigeria.
  • Today’s game will mark the Olympic debut for all 11 players on the squad.
  • The Starting XI has an average age of 23 and three days.
  • The HTML0 Olympic Men’s Soccer Tournament is only open to those who are less than 23 years old. older, and there’s an opportunity for three players who are over their 23rd birthday. Three U.S. players over the age of 23 will start today: Djordje Mihailovic (25 years old), Miles Robinson (27) and Walker Zimmerman (31).
  • Seven players returned after the Olympics Team’s draw of 2-2 drawn from behind against France at the end of March. March Paxten Aaronson, Gianluca Busio McGuire Kevin Paredes, Patrick Schulte, Tanner Tessmann and John Tolkin.
  • Tessmann is the captain of the team tonight. It’s the fifth time he’s worn the armband during the span of 7 games. He’s been captain for every match for the men’s Olympic Soccer team since November. 18 against. Iraq.
  • Players of the Starting XI have played in Major League Soccer or developed through an MLS academy. Apart from the currently MLS clubs, the players of the team also had the privilege of playing for various MLS or MLS next teams. Aaronson (Philadelphia Union) Gianluca Busio (Sporting Kansas City), Nathan Harriel (Chargers SC), Djordje Mihailovic (Chicago Fire FC, CF Montreal), Kevin Paredes (D.C. United, Bethesda SC), Miles Robinson (Atlanta United FC, FC Greater Boston Bolts), Tanner Tessmann (FC Dallas) and Walker Zimmerman (FC Dallas, LAFC).
  • Defenders Miles Robinson and Walker Zimmerman have been playing together in the central defensive position of the USMNT’s Senior USMNT Nine times in total, which gives them seven wins and one loss. All matches included competitions that were officially recognized (2021 Concacaf Gold Cup and 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying). This is their first match since March 31st, 2022, in Costa Rica in World Cup qualifying.
  • The first midfielders Gianluca Busio and Tanner Tessmann play together in Italy for Venezia. They helped the team climb up into Serie A during the 2023-24 season. They’ve played together for four times in the 7 games played by the Olympic team this year.
  • It’s the first time that we have seen the faces between France and the U.S. and France at the Olympic Games.
  • The U.S. is 4W-3L-5D in the group stage, since the rule for under-23s was introduced in 1992. an overall record of 3W-1L-4D over the eight games in the group stage.
  • Yael Falcon of Argentina serves as the official ref for the game today. He served as referee for the 2024 Copa America, the CONMEBOL Olympic qualifying tournament, and at the FIFA U-20 World Cup.

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