Christian Pulisic headlines official USMNT World Cup roster as Diego Luna, Tanner Tessman left out

The United States men's nationalist squad roster for the 2026 FIFA World Cup was officially revealed astatine Pier 17 successful Manhattan connected Tuesday afternoon, and the 26 men representing the Stars and Stripes are acceptable to amusement retired connected location ungraded adjacent month.

However, determination were immoderate cardinal absences from the roster, which created rather the buzz online aft it was leaked implicit Memorial Day weekend.

For many, 2 cardinal snubs for Mauricio Pochettino’s archetypal World Cup roster were successful the midfield, arsenic Diego Luna and Tanner Tessman weren’t among the 26 men connected the signifier astatine Pier 17.

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The U.S. Men's National Team poses during the announcement of the 2026 World Cup roster successful New York connected May 26, 2026. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)

Tessman did endure a musculus strain earlier this period portion playing for Lyon, his nine successful France, though it wasn’t expected to impact his quality to enactment successful the World Cup. Many believed the 24-year-old, who had played successful the past six Team USA matches nether Pochettino, had a large accidental of making the squad arsenic a antiaircraft midfielder.

Instead, lone Tyler Adams, who captained the USMNT successful 2022 during the Qatar World Cup, is among the antiaircraft midfielders connected the roster.

Even much surprising, though, was Luna, the Real Salt Lake prima who has shown greatness successful presumption of scoring connected the planetary stage, portion besides providing a pugnacious quality astir his crippled that the World Cup calls for. In fact, Luna was viewed arsenic a virtual fastener considering Nike utilized him during promotional ads for the World Cup, though U.S. Soccer ne'er signed disconnected connected who they would use.

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Luna is simply a instrumentality favorite, but Pochettino went with different attacking midfielders successful the end.

Others who were among those considered arsenic a anticipation of making the squad but didn’t were midfielder Yunus Musah, who played successful the 2022 World Cup for the U.S., arsenic did striker Josh Sargent. Aidan Morris and 19-year-old Zavier Gozo were besides near out.

Christian Pulisic poses with his jersey during the United States World Cup roster uncover successful New York City connected May 26, 2026. (Adam Hunger/Getty Images)

But Pochettino was looking for the 26 close players, alternatively than the champion ones, to correspond the U.S. connected location ungraded for the archetypal clip since 1994, and the archetypal clip successful past that FIFA volition person matches played successful 3 antithetic countries. Canada and Mexico volition besides big matches, arsenic each of North America welcomes the champion 48 teams successful the satellite nether a caller format that includes an other knockout round.

Finally, it's worthy noting that substitutions to rosters tin beryllium made by June 1, meaning they inactive person a accidental of being changed earlier the archetypal lucifer against Paraguay astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood, California, connected June 12.

Here is who volition beryllium playing for the USMNT successful the 2026 FIFA World Cup:

GOALIES

• #1: Matt Turner, New England Revolution (2nd World Cup)
• #24: Matt Freese, New York City FC (1st)
• #25: Chris Brady, Chicago Fire (1st)

STRIKERS

• #9 Ricardo Pepi, PSV (1st)
• #19 Haji Wright, Coventry City (2nd)
• #20 Folarin Balogun, AS Monaco (1st)

USMNT guardant Haji Wright poses with his jersey during the announcement of the USMNT 2026 World Cup roster successful New York connected May 26, 2026. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)

MIDFIELDERS

• #4 Tyler Adams, AFC Bournemouth (2nd)
• #8 Weston McKennie, Juventus (2nd)
• #14 Sebastian Berhalter, Vancouver Whitecaps (1st)
• #15 Cristian Roldan, Seattle Sounders (2nd)

ATTACKING MIDFIELDER/WINGERS

• #7 Gio Reyna, Borussia Mönchengladbach (1st)
• #10 Christian Pulisic, AC Milan (2nd)
• #11 Brenden Aaronson, Leeds United (2nd)
• #17 Malik Tillman, Bayer Leverkusen (1st)
• #21 Tim Weah, Marseille (2nd)
• #26 Alex Zendejas, Club América (1st)

Mauricio Pochettino, caput manager of the United States men's shot team, poses with Fox Sports pundits during the U.S. World Cup roster uncover successful New York City connected May 26, 2026. (Ira L. Black/USSF/Getty Images)

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DEFENDERS

• #2 Sergiño Dest, PSV (2nd)
• #3 Chris Richards, Crystal Palace (1st)
• #5 Antonee Robinson, Fulham (2nd)
• #6 Auston Trusty, Celtic (1st)
• #12 Miles Robinson, FC Cincinnati (1st)
• #13 Tim Ream, Charlotte FC (2nd)
• #16 Alex Freeman, Villarreal (1st)
• #18 Max Arfsten, Columbus Crew (1st)
• #22 Mark McKenzie, Toulouse (1st)
• #23 Joe Scally, Borussia Mönchengladbach (2nd)

This radical volition instrumentality connected Paraguay connected June 12, followed by matches against Australia (June 19 successful Seattle) and Turkiye (June 25 successful Los Angeles) for their Group D play.

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