30 man World Cup training camp roster announced

The 30 man roster for the World Cup training camp was announced just a little bit ago on ESPN News. The biggest news of this roster was the absence of striker Charlie Davies who was seriously injured in a car accident last year.

Here is the full list:

Keepers
Tim Howard (Everton, England)
Marcus Hahnemann (Wolverhampton, England)
Brad Guzan (Aston Villa, England)

Defense
Oguchi Onyewu (AC Milan, Italy)
Carlos Bocanegra (Rennes, France)
Jay DeMerit (Watford, England)
Jonathan Spector (West Ham, England)
Steve Cherundolo (Hanover, Germany)
Jonathan Bornstein (Chivas USA, MLS)
Clarence Goodson (Start, Norway)
Chad Marshall (Columbus, MLS)
Heath Pearce (FC Dallas, MLS)

Midfield
Michael Bradley (Moenchengladbach, Germany)
Maurice Edu (Glasgow Rangers, Scotland)
Ricardo Clark (Eintracht Frankfurt, Germany)
Stuart Holden (Bolton, England)
Jose Francisco Torres (Pachuca, Mexico)
Benny Feilhaber (Aarhus, Denmark)
Alejandro Bedoya (Orebro, Sweden)
Sacha Kljestan (Chivas USA, MLS)
Robbie Rogers (Columbus, MLS)
DaMarcus Beasley (Glasgow Rangers, Scotland)
Clint Dempsey (Fulham, England)
Landon Donovan (Los Angeles, MLS)

Strikers
Jozy Altidore (Hull City, England)
Brian Ching (Houston, MLS)
Edson Buddle (Los Angeles, MLS)
Herculez Gomez (Puebla, Mexico)
Eddie Johnson (Aris, Greece)
Robbie Findley (Real Salt Lake, MLS)

So who else is missing from this list that you might have expected to see here?

Another Failed Thursday Prediction

If the goal scored around the 12th minute by Herculez Gomez had not been called back due to a bad offiside call, the Rapids would have gone up 2 - 0.  Instead of that happening, Real Salt Lake scored a just a short time afterwards to tie the game at the final score of 1 - 1.

Had the goal been allowed and the Rapids gone up 2 - 0 anything could have happened during the rest of the game.  Maybe Real Salt Lake gets pissed off and scores 4 2nd half goals, who knows?  But the one thing I know is that I would have been much more likely to have a correct Thursday prediction.  I would have bet $100 that Real Salt Lake is not going to come back from 2 down.  They did that last week, they won’t twice in a row.

But no matter what I think, I was still wrong.  This isn’t going so good with 1 correct out of 5 weeks.  I’ll probably manage to screw up Dallas/Chicago next week as well.

Herculez Was Not Offside

Right before Freddy Adu’s goal a goal was disallowed on the other end of the field.

It has been a while since I’ve been registered as a referee, but I’m pretty sure Tommy was wrong and that goal should have been a good goal.  Now instead of being up 2-0 (which was my predicted final score by the way) they are tied at 1-1.  When the initial shot was taken there was no one in an offiside position.

I don’t have this one on the DVR so I can’t rewind it.  Am I wrong, or should have the Rapids gone up 2-0?