We have had a couple of players that were originally selected have to drop for various reasons, so I thought I would post our final roster that will go after Back to Back Gold Medals and follow the "2013 Impossible Dream Team" and become the "2017 Forever Team"! Here is our team: this is a great group of players and better people. We are very excited to get started on our twice in a lifetime of back to back Gold! Coach Goldfarb 2017 Maccabi USA Open Team Name Position College Josh Haberman GK Princeton University Max Kurtzman GK University of Pennsylvania Ryan Jones Def Marywood College/Pro in England Jonny Dolezal Def University of Pennsylvania/Pro in Denmark Benjamin Issroff Def Princeton University Sam Raben Def Wake Forest University Elijah Lichtenberg Def Claremont University William Cohen Def Amherst University Daniel Rubenstein Def Wesleyan University Evin Nadaner Def Boston University/ Pro in Germany Kovi Konowiecki MF Wake Forest University/Pro in Israel Daniel Kohen Def Petah Tikva Jake Rozhansky MF University of Maryland Aaron Franco MF University of Maryland Lance Dotzman MF Muhlenberg College/ NPSL Lehigh Valley Sam Friedman MF Lafayette University Brett Walsdorf Def Gettysburg College Stephen Elias STK North Carolina State Alec Weiss STK Villanova University Oliver Eisen STK FC Taby, Sweden/Syracuse University

Well, the games are almost here and now we have our schedule. Here it is and it is tough, as we must play three in a row including quarter finals: 2017 Team USA Schedule Game Date Time Opponent Field Score 1 5-Jul 4:00 PM Venezuela Bait Vagan 1 2 9-Jul 9:00 AM Great Britain Bait Vagan 1 3 10-Jul 9:00 AM Australia Bait Vagan 1 4 11-Jul 4:00 PM ? Quarter Finals Bait Vagan 1 5 13-Jul 4:00 PM ? Semi Finals Bait Vagan 1 6 16-Jul 7:30 PM ? Finals Givat Ram We must stay really fit to overcome this tough schedule, but we can make it happen. We leave for israel on June 25 and have one training session on the afternoon of our arrival. We then train twice a day for two more days, then every morning after that, as we start touring on June 29th. We are working on two friendly games, one with Mexico and one with Maccabi Tel Aviv. I spoke with their Sporting Director, Jordi Cruyff and he is trying to arrange the game for us. So, until we depart, take care and I will keep posting and please keep reading... Coach Goldfarb