USMNT to play Turkey and Switzerland in pre-Gold Cup friendlies

• Games will act as warm-ups for regional championship
• US facing Turkey for the first time since 2014

The United States men?s national team will play friendlies against Turkey and Switzerland ahead of the Concacaf Gold Cup this summer. The US will face Turkey on 7 June in East Hartford, Connecticut, and Switzerland three days later in Nashville, Tennessee, the US Soccer Federation announced on Monday.
The games will presumably feature the full squad set to compete in the Gold Cup, which will feature many but perhaps not all first-choice stars for the US. Clubs that are participating in the Club World Cup are expected to retain players for the tournament, which takes place at the same time as the Gold Cup. That means that Juventus? duo of Weston McKennie and Tim Weah, Dortmund?s Gio Reyna, and Seattle Sounders? Jordan Morris, Cristian Roldan and Jes?s Ferreira will all likely be out of contention.
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