Benny Feilhaber’s long-lasting, oft-publicized, frequently-debated United States men’s national-team absence has finally reached its conclusion.
Feilhaber, Sporting Kansas City’s playmaking midfielder, has been called into the national team’s January camp for the first time since 2014. Not coincidentally, it’s the first U.S. camp under recently-hired coach Bruce Arena, who replaced Jürgen Klinsmann.
Sporting KC veteran Graham Zusi will join Feilhaber in Carson, Calif., from Jan. 10-Feb. 3, overlapping the start of the Sporting KC preseason. The U.S. will face Serbia (Jan. 29) and Jamaica (Feb. 3) in friendlies.
“This is an opportunity that I’ve been waiting for,” Feilhaber said in the announcement.