{"id":7403,"date":"2026-10-04T01:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T01:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7403"},"modified":"2026-10-04T01:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T01:26:17","slug":"cavan-sullivan-and-barcelona-prospect-diego-kochen-start-for-usa-vs-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7403","title":{"rendered":"Cavan Sullivan And Barcelona Prospect Diego Kochen Start For USA vs. Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed><strong>STATE FARM STADIUM (Glendale, Ariz.) \u2013<\/strong> What a way to get your first start for the U.S. men\u2019s national team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>A week after making his senior international debut in the second half of the USA\u2019s 4-1 win over Peru, 20-year-old Barcelona goalkeeper Diego Kochen was named in coach Mauricio Pochettino&#8217;s lineup for Saturday\u2019s high-profile exhibition with blood rivals Mexico just outside of Phoenix, where a sellout crowd of 64,000 fans is expected at the home of the NFL\u2019s Arizona Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>Cavan Sullivan, who turned 17 on Monday, is also in Pochettino\u2019s 11 against El Tri. The Philadelphia Union attacker started against Peru \u2014 becoming the second-youngest starter in the 113-year history of the U.S. men&#8217;s program and the fourth-youngest overall \u2014 and came in off the bench in the Americans&#8217; most recent outing, a 4-2 victory over Chile last Tuesday in St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>Kochen earned the nod over Matt Freese, who was between the posts for all five U.S. games at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Chris Brady and Brian Schwake are the other two keepers in Pochettino\u2019s current squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>Kochen didn\u2019t allow a goal in his 45 minutes of action against Peru. Brady and Schwake each played a half vs. Chile, surrendering one goal apiece. The Stars and Stripes will close out this extended four-game international window against Canada on Tuesday in St. Paul, Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>Although he didn\u2019t make Pochettino\u2019s World Cup roster, Kochen served as a training keeper during the USA\u2019s pre-tournament training camp. Five-time European champs Bar\u00e7a then sent the South Florida native on loan to Danish club Lyngby for the 2026-27 season. Kochen has one clean sheet in nine Danish Superliga games so far, conceding 16 times in all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>Pochettino, the 54-year-old former Tottenham, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain manager, said during Friday\u2019s pre-match press conference that his lineup would contain a mix of experienced players and youngsters. Two-time World Cup veterans Antonee Robinson, Gio Reyna and Tyler Adams \u2014 who the Argentine named U.S. captain on the eve of the contest \u2014 round out the team, which also includes 2026 World Cup goalscorers Alex Freeman, Sebastian Berhalter and Auston Trusty. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>Eighteen-year-old Red Bull New York striker Julian Hall, who scored in each of his first two U.S. appearances last month, will lead Pochettino\u2019s front line against Mexico. Saturday\u2019s contest marks the second straight start for Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROWSE BY STATE FARM STADIUM (Glendale, Ariz.) \u2013 What a way to get your first start for the U.S. men\u2019s national team. A week after making his senior international debut in the second half of the USA\u2019s 4-1 win over Peru, 20-year-old Barcelona goalkeeper Diego Kochen was named in coach Mauricio Pochettino&#8217;s lineup for Saturday\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}