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rdw1690 
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| First friendly of 2013 will be against the Canucks (Posted on 12/17/12 at 1:39 pm)
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@GrantWahl: Official: USMNT to face Canada in friendly on Jan 29 in Houston. Not an official FIFA international date.
It will probably be a younger squad since its not an official friendly date. Lots of MLSers if I had to guess.
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Tweezy
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| re: First friendly of 2013 will be against the Canucks (Posted on 12/17/12 at 2:07 pm to rdw1690)
Twitter is saying that it'll be a "reward" camp for fringe guys who've done well this year. Also seemed to indicate that majority of guys called here won't be in the Honduras lineup
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WarSlamEagle 
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| re: First friendly of 2013 will be against the Canucks (Posted on 12/17/12 at 2:08 pm to Tweezy)
Captain Eddie Johnson.
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rdw1690
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| re: First friendly of 2013 will be against the Canucks (Posted on 12/17/12 at 2:25 pm to Tweezy)
So a team full of Alan Gordon's?
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Tweezy
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| re: First friendly of 2013 will be against the Canucks (Posted on 12/17/12 at 2:33 pm to rdw1690)
Well Alan Gordon actually wasn't on the projected roster I saw, but yes something like that.
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rdw1690
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| re: First friendly of 2013 will be against the Canucks (Posted on 12/17/12 at 2:53 pm to Tweezy)
Where did you see said projected roster?
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Tweezy
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| re: First friendly of 2013 will be against the Canucks (Posted on 12/17/12 at 2:54 pm to rdw1690)
Eh, believe it was Ives, I'll check and post it in here
Eta: he goes on to mention jones is probably 50/50 bc he'll be serving his club suspension in January and I think he just had a kid or something else that would possibly keep him out
PROJECTED USMNT CAMP ROSTER
GOALKEEPER- Nick Rimando, Sean Johnson, Bill Hamid
DEFENDERS- Omar Gonzalez, Matt Besler, Austin Berry, Amobi Okugo, Steve Beitashour, Kofi Sarkodie, Justin Morrow, Seth Sinovic
MIDFIELDERS- Graham Zusi, Mix Diskerud, Josh Gatt, Chris Pontius, Jermaine Jones, Alejandro Bedoya, Kyle Beckerman, Ricardo Clark
FORWARDS- Terrence Boyd, Eddie Johnson, Juan Agudelo, Chris Wondolowski
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thenry712 
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| re: First friendly of 2013 will be against the Canucks (Posted on 12/17/12 at 2:58 pm to rdw1690)
More like a squad full of CJ Sapongs, Dax McCartys and Matt Beslers; guys with good MLS pedigree who can try to impress Klinsmann during camp.
I'm glad Klinsmann went ahead and scheduled this friendly instead of opting to completely remove it in favor of his preferred method of getting guys training stints in Europe. These January camps usually produce at least one or two guys who go on to contribute to the national team later in the year.
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Tweezy
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| re: First friendly of 2013 will be against the Canucks (Posted on 12/17/12 at 3:02 pm to thenry712)
Yeah I'm pumped to hopefully see Omar besler paired and also Pontius out there somewhere
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Sheep
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| re: First friendly of 2013 will be against the Canucks (Posted on 12/17/12 at 3:18 pm to rdw1690)
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in Houston.
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rdw1690
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| re: First friendly of 2013 will be against the Canucks (Posted on 12/17/12 at 3:21 pm to Tweezy)
I'm also excited about Omar and Besler. I hope Boyd can get his first international goal too.
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LSUMJ 
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| re: First friendly of 2013 will be against the Canucks (Posted on 12/17/12 at 3:45 pm to rdw1690)
BR Outlaws road trip
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thenry712
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| re: First friendly of 2013 will be against the Canucks (Posted on 12/17/12 at 3:47 pm to rdw1690)
Unless the Austrian league has a super extended winter break, why would Boyd be on the roster for a non-FIFA sanctioned international break?
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Tweezy
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| re: First friendly of 2013 will be against the Canucks (Posted on 12/17/12 at 3:52 pm to thenry712)
Rapid Wien doesn't play again until feb 16, so yeah it's a long cold winter in Austria
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Tweezy
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| re: First friendly of 2013 will be against the Canucks (Posted on 12/17/12 at 3:54 pm to Tweezy)
Also despite this being a second rate usmnt squad, I'm really interested to see what they can do out there. Couple different kind of players in the squad, I think it could be fun to watch
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Fratastic423
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| re: First friendly of 2013 will be against the Canucks (Posted on 12/18/12 at 8:34 am to LSUMJ)
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BR Outlaws road trip
Why is this game in the middle of the week? If it isn't even an international break, why not play this game on a Saturday night? I won't be able to take the two days off it will require to go to the game.
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DestrehanTiger 
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| re: First friendly of 2013 will be against the Canucks (Posted on 12/18/12 at 8:59 am to rdw1690)
I'm guessing this will be in BBVA Compass and not Reliant, correct? I'm excited to have the team here, but I hope it doesn't take away the chance to have one of the qualifyers here.
FUUUUUUUUUUUU. Just realized I will be in Dallas for work that night. 
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Tweezy
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| re: First friendly of 2013 will be against the Canucks (Posted on 12/18/12 at 9:17 am to DestrehanTiger)
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I'm excited to have the team here, but I hope it doesn't take away the chance to have one of the qualifyers here.
I asked Brian Strauss on twitter and be said that he definitely does not think it hurts chances. He said the Houston choice this time had more to do with location in relation to where most of the projected players are coming from. Rather than a "come see them now frickers cuz we aren't coming back" type of thing
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Fratastic423
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| re: First friendly of 2013 will be against the Canucks (Posted on 12/18/12 at 10:24 am to Fratastic423)
Talked to the boss lady....I'm in for an Outlaw trip. Ticket has been purchased. Lets do this!!! 
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3rdRowTailgater
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| re: First friendly of 2013 will be against the Canucks (Posted on 12/18/12 at 4:23 pm to Fratastic423)
Excited to be making this trip.
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