Hard as it may be to believe, we’re in a World Cup year again, and the New York Red Bulls squad is already feeling some of the ripple effects.
Cristian Cásseres Jr and Wikelman Carmona will miss the opening two weeks of MLS preseason camp to join the Venezuela national team. On Monday, the Venezuelan Football Federation announced an initial 21 players who will participate in training camp at Isla de Margarita, the site of the academy where Carmona trained as a youth player before moving to New York last year. Among the other players in the squad were fellow MLSers Jhonder Cadiz (who recently returned to Benfica after a loan at Nashville SC) and Pablo Bonilla of Portland Timbers.