Tim Weah might miss the primary matches of the Mauricio Pochettino period.
Weah, the veteran U.S. males’s nationwide workforce ahead, injured his hamstring on Monday within the first half of Italian membership Juventus‘ season-opening 3-0 win over Como in Turin. The 24-year-old Brooklyn native scored his first Serie A objective simply moments earlier than being subbed out at half-time.
On Tuesday, the file 36-time Italian champions launched a press release revealing that Weah had suffered “a low-grade hamstring harm in his proper thigh, and that he can be examined once more “in roughly 10 days.”
That timeline would take Weah to Aug. 30, simply two days earlier than Juventus hosts Roma at Allianz Stadium. USMNT gamers chosen to the roster that may face Canada and New Zealand in friendlies early subsequent month will start reporting to Kansas Metropolis on Sept 1. The Individuals meet the Canadians there six days later, then journey to Cincinnati to tackle the Kiwis on Sept. 10.
Former Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain supervisor Pochettino is anticipated to be formally launched because the USMNT’s new coach earlier than then, although he most likely will not be on the sidelines for these video games.
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Weah, the son of former Ballon d’Or winner George Weah, has amassed 41 U.S. caps since making his debut in 2018. His six worldwide targets embrace the Individuals’ first on the 2022 World Cup.
Weah joined Juventus final season following 4 years with French membership Lille. He performed for PSG and Scottish membership Celtic earlier than that. The winger made 30 Serie A appearances final 12 months with out discovering the web, although he did rating a stupendous objective within the Coppa Italia spherical of 16 win over Salernitana as Juve went on to win the title.
Doug McIntyre is a soccer reporter for FOX Sports activities. A former workers author with ESPN and Yahoo Sports activities, he has coated U.S. males’s and girls’s nationwide groups at FIFA World Cups on 5 continents. Comply with him @ByDougMcIntyre.
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