Chris Durkin makes final roster for the U-17 World Cup

John Hackworth has announced the final roster for the US U-17 men’s national team for the U-17 World Cup in India and, as expected, D.C. United’s Chris Durkin is on it. Durkin has been a mainstay of Hackworth’s qualifying campaigning, starting most of the important games and captaining the U-17s at times as well.

The team will depart for training camp on September 24 and will play their group stage matches on October 6 (against India), October 9 (against Ghana), and October 12 (against Colombia). The final is on October 28 in Kolkata.

Durkin is joined on the roster by a number of other exciting young players: Josh Sargent, soon to be of Weder Bremen, and Andrew Carleton are two names of which…