Carving up the national team...again

It's Tuesday, which means John Carver's unhappy with the national team.
Any national team.
Just about every national team.
Last week Carver was miffed that Canada's head coach, Dale Mitchell, hadn't called him to discuss how the two teams would share players, even after TFC training staff helped treat national team standout Julian de Guzman.
This morning Carver complained that the U.S. national team keeps grabbing Maurice Edu for games in which they don't really need him.
Edu, the 2007 Rookie of the Year, will miss yet another MLS game this weekend because of U.S. World Cup qualifying.
Carver says there's nothing wrong with that.
He's more upset that this past Sunday Edu dressed for a U.S. squad that featured only six MLS players, playing about half an hour in an exhibition against Argentina, but missing Toronto's game in Houston.
Carver points out that Houston stars Brian Ching and Ricardo Clark have played for the national team in the past but weren't called up for Sunday's game, so they played against TFC. He thinks the U.S. national team should have done TFC the same favour with Edu.
But since they didn't, Carver came up with a new rule.
No national team games for anyone except for FIFA match dates.
Period.



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