U.S. Calls 20 to Mission Viejo for World Cup ’94 Training

The U.S. Soccer Federation on Tuesday asked 20 players to move to Mission Viejo and begin full-time training for the 1994 World Cup.

Included are goalkeepers Brad Friedel and Tony Meola, and defenders Desmond Armstrong, Marcelo Balboa, Paul Caligiuri, Fernando Clavijo, John Doyle, Mike Lapper and Janusuz Michallik.

The midfielders are Mike Burns, Mark Chung, Chris Henderson, Cobi Jones, Dominic Kinnear, Joe-Max Moore, Bruce Murray, Brian Quinn and Mike Sorber. Jean Habor and Peter Vermes are the forwards.

The group, which was offered 1993 contracts with the U.S. national team, will form the basic squad that the United States will use for its games next year.

For important matches, the team will be supplemented by American players based overseas: goalkeeper Kasey Keller (Milwall, England); defender Thomas Dooley (Kaiserslautern, Germany); midfielders John Harkes (Sheffield Wednesday, England), Tab Ramos (Real Betis, Spain) and Hugo Perez (Ittihad, Saudi Arabia); and forwards Roy Wegerle (Blackburn, England), Ernie Stewart (Willem II Tilburg, Netherlands), Eric Wynalda (Saarbruecken, Germany) and Frank Klopas (AEK Athens, Greece).

Included in the group offered contracts are five members of the 1992 U.S. Olympic team: Burns, Friedel, Jones, Lapper and Moore.

Of those invited to Mission Viejo, Meola, Armstrong, Caligiuri, Doyle, Henderson, Murray, Balboa and Vermes were members of the 1990 World Cup squad.