USA vs. France: Starting XI & Lineup Notes
The match tonight is U.S. Olympian men’s soccer Team Starting XI vs.
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U.S. Olympic Men’s Soccer Team vs. France
2024 Olympic Men’s Soccer Tournament Match No. 1
July 24, 2024
Stade de Marseille; Marseille, France
Kickoff: 3 p.m. ET on USA Network, Telemundo and Peacock
Social Media: @USYNT on X and Instagram; U.S. Soccer on Facebook, the U.S. Soccer App
Today’s U.S. Olympic Men’s Soccer Team Starting XI vs. France:1-Patrick Schulte, 2-Nathan Harriel, 3-Walkerzimmerman, 5-John Tolkin, 6-Gianluca busio, 7-Kevin Peredes, 8-Tanner Tessmann (Capt. ), 11-Paxten Aaronson, 12-Miles Robinson, 13-Duncan McGuire, 14-Djordje Mihailovic
Substitutes: 18-Gaga Slonina, 4-Maximilian Dietz, 9-Griffin Yow, 10-Taylor Booth, 15-Benjamin Cremaschi, 16-Jack McGlynn, 17-Caleb Wiley
- Starting XI Under-23 cap numbers (including this game): Tessmann (11) and Mihailovic (10), Harriel (8), Tolkin (8), Busio (7), Aaronson (6), McGuire (6), Zimmerman (5), Schulte (4), Paredes (3), Robinson (3)
- Starting XI senior U.S. Men’s National Team cap numbers: Zimmerman (42), Robinson (29), Mihailovic (11), Busio (13), Tolkin (4), Paredes (3), Tessmann (2), Aaronson (1), McGuire (1), Schulte (1), Harriel (0)
- This is an opportunity for the U.S. The first time that men have played time at the Olympics in 5,824 days. The last time the USA competed was at the stage in which they were competing Beijing 2008, where they lost 2:1 loss to Nigeria.
- Today’s game marks the Olympic debut of all 11 players of the lineup.
- The Starting XI has an average age of 23 years and 347 days.
- The Olympic Men’s Soccer Tournament is only open to players who are under 23 years old, and there is a provision for three players over the age of 23. Three U.S. overage players start tonight: Djordje Mihailovic (25 years old), Miles Robinson (27) and Walker Zimmerman (31).
- Seven players return from the Olympic Team’s 2-2 draw from behind draw against France on the 26th of March: Paxten Aaronson Gianluca Busio Duncan McGuire, Kevin Paredes, Patrick Schulte, Tanner Tessmann and John Tolkin.
- Tessmann is captain of the team tonight, the fifth time he’s sporting the armband in the course of seven games. He’s been captain in every game for the Men’s Olympic Soccer team since November. 18 against. Iraq.
- The players of the Starting XI have played in Major League Soccer or developed through an MLS academy. Apart from the current MLS clubs, players of the team also played playing with some of the MLS and MLS Next teams: Aaronson (Philadelphia Union), Gianluca Busio (Sporting Kansas City), Nathan Harriel (Chargers SC), Djordje Mihailovic (Chicago Fire FC, CF Montreal), Kevin Paredes (D.C. United, Bethesda SC), Miles Robinson (Atlanta United FC, FC Greater Boston Bolts), Tanner Tessmann (FC Dallas) and Walker Zimmerman (FC Dallas, LAFC).
- Defenders Miles Robinson and Walker Zimmerman have played together in the central defensive position in the Senior USMNT Nine times accumulating an overall record of 7W-1L-1D. All matches were in competitions that were officially sanctioned (2021 Concacaf Gold Cup and 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying). This is their first time playing together since the 31st of March 2022 in Costa Rica in World Cup qualifying.
- The starting midfielders Gianluca Busio as well as Tanner Tessmann play together in Italy for Venezia. They led the team’s advancement up to Serie A during the 2023-24 season, and have played with each other in four of the seven games for the Olympic team this season.
- It is also the very first encounter of both the U.S. and France at the Olympic Games.
- The U.S. is 4W-3L-5D in the group stage since the rule for Under-23 was implemented in 1992, with a record of 3W-1L-4D in the last 8 group stage games.
- Yael Falcon from Argentina is the official referee for the match tonight. He served as the referee during the 2024 Copa America, the CONMEBOL Olympic qualifying tournament as well as at the FIFA U-20 World Cup.
