Houston Dynamo Academy midfielder Marcelo Palomino was named to the U.S. Under-14 boys national team roster by head coach Brian Johnson. The 48-player roster will take part in an eight-day training camp from Oct. 11-19 at U.S. Soccer’s National Training Center in Carson, California.
Throughout training camp, the players will train twice a day in the morning and evening on either side of an afternoon break to focus on their academics. The October training camp will mark the first one for the U-14s in the new 2014-2015 cycle.
“We are all very proud of Marcelo,” said Dynamo director of youth development James Clarkson. “He has so much potential and hopefully this experience will continue to elevate his game and accelerate his development. He plays on our U-14s and was on the bench last week for the U-16s.”
The group will play a pair of intrasquad games on Oct. 15, and a third one on Oct. 18 at 3 p.m. Following the third intrasquad contest, the group will go against Academy club team Arsenal FC’s U-13/14s at 5 p.m. PT.
View the complete 48-player roster.
Hailing from all over the country, 14 states will have representatives at the training camp, with California topping the list at 13. New York and Texas claim six each; four are from Maryland; three apiece from Colorado, Florida and Illinois; Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia boast a pair of players each; while Kansas, Michigan, New Jersey and Utah will each have one representative.
More than half of the roster has ties to the Development Academy as 27 of the players on the group are currently on an Academy club roster.
