Sebastian Lletget – Football Scout

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LOS ANGELES — Five o’clock on the Friday of a holiday weekend is not an ideal time to be driving on the highways of Southern California. But here we are, somewhere between the apartment Sebastian Lletget shares with his girlfriend, pop star Becky G, and Dignity Health Sports Park, home of the LA Galaxy — who host Real Salt Lake on Sunday (8:00 p.m. ET, ESPN+). The 26-year old star, a facilitator of his Major League Soccer club’s potent attack and arguably the one man in the U.S. men’s national…

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The choices that Arena made both with his roster and his lineup for last month’s World Cup qualifiers against Honduras and Panama provided the first real window into the current pecking order. And that information that…

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After playing an abbreviated schedule last weekend during FIFA’s most recent international window, Major League Soccer returns this weekend with a full slate of games. The impact of the international break will linger on by players and their clubs, however. Here are some of the biggest winners and losers as the attention on league play resumes.

Winners 

Clint Dempsey, Seattle Sounders/USA:
For a guy who wasn’t even supposed to be called in by U.S. coach Bruce Arena after missing eight…

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Sebastian Lletget was injured 13 minutes after opening the scoring against Honduras.
LA Galaxy midfielder Sebastian Lletget will have foot surgery and miss the next four to six months after suffering an injury while on U.S. national team duty.
Lletget scored his first international goal to open the U.S.’s 6-0 World Cup qualifying win over Honduras on Friday, but limped off 13 minutes later.
The 24-year-old returned to the Galaxy, whose official website reported on Sunday that there was no significant damage to his foot.
But after Lletget visited a specialist on Monday, the club…

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The USSF also announced that Sebastian Lletget, John Brooks, Jordan Morris, and Michael Orozco have returned to their clubs, leaving the U.S. with 23 players.
“It’s an unfortunate series of injuries and illnesses,” coach Bruce Arena said. “That’s all part of it.”
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U.S. head coach Bruce Arena was pleased with his side’s performance against Serbia despite the match ending scoreless.
Bruce Arena’s return to the sidelines with the U.S. Men’s National Team came in the form of a friendly against Serbia at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. With the stakes just a bit higher than in a usual January camp friendly, the Americans ended the day with a slightly dispiriting goalless draw.

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Positives
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“Opportunity” is usually the byword at the annual January camp for the U.S. men’s national team and the current edition is no different. It’s not often that a player gets to spend the better part of a month under the watchful eye of the national team head coach. If a move is going to be made up the depth chart, January is the perfect time.

But this incarnation has a little bit more bounce to it than those in recent years and that is due to a new manager, Bruce Arena, in charge. In fact, you have…

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