Training camp for the team has begun. As a nice first day surprise, The Bruce subjects the team to the ‘Beep Test’. Watch the video here and see the ‘old man’ Hejduk beat everyone else. Honestly after watching that I’m still not 100% clear what the Beep Test is, but it looks like your average suicide drill back and forth, but you have to complete it within a certain amount of time (before the beep), and that time gets shorter every round.
In other important news (at least for those of us hoping/planning on going to Germany), USSF has announced that there will be no public sale of tickets for now. Apparently the presale got so many applications that there will even be a wait list, and from reading the release, I get the impression it will be a sizable wait list. Our application was among the morning of Day 2 overnight mail rush “since the ‘faxes’ didn’t work”, so hopefully that will be early enough. If not, they further state that we will know by January 14 so we can enter into the last FIFA lottery if need be. This is the first thing USSF has done right in this whole mess, i.e. communicating with the fans.
UPDATE 1/6: AP article here about Freddy Adu in camp.