It's been a while since the U.S. men's national team was together. It's been even longer since something resembling a first-choice U.S. men's national team has gathered.
With the coronavirus pandemic wreaking havoc on–among many considerably more significant things—the international soccer calendar, Gregg Berhalter has had to sit and wait. The last U.S. camp the manager was able to run was the annual January exercise that takes place outside of the FIFA calendar and includes an almost exclusively domestic-based squad. It culminated with a 1–0 win over Costa Rica, with the lone goal—and thus far, the lone goal on the year—being scored on a penalty kick by Ulysses Llanez, then a Wolfsburg youth team product given the clearance to join in a window otherwise prohibitive to European-based talent.