Former US men’s national team greats Landon Donovan and Tim Howard criticized some of the stars who asked to be left off the team’s Gold Cup roster this summer, with Donovan saying he believes that the national team is “not a priority” for them.
The Gold Cup is the last international tournament the US men’s national team will compete in before playing co-host for the 2026 World Cup next summer. Christian Pulisic, Antonee Robinson and Yunus Musah all asked to be left off of the team for various reasons, with Pulisic citing the workload of two straight 50-game campaigns with Milan, while Robinson was ruled out with a case of knee tendinopathy (an overuse injury that he had been managing for much of the second half of the Premier League season).
