Fresh Meat for 2010

Believe it or not, just a year after World Cup 2006 in Germany, the whole shebang is getting set to start up again with qualifying matches for the 2010 edition in South Africa. While the US waits for the preliminary rounds of CONCACAF qualifying to work themselves out, Bob Bradley has decided that the time is now to start looking for new talent. To that end, his roster for next Wednesday's friendly with Switzerland in Basel is chock full of guys who have never seen national team duty before. Also called in is former DC United wunderkind Freddy Adu, who is not exactly setting the world on fire at Benfica.

Will this be the core of the team we send to South Africa in 2010? I don't know. But it's time to start finding out.