USMNT's Antonee Robinson has knee surgery

Fulham defender Antonee Robinson has undergone palmy genu surgery, the nine confirmed connected Wednesday.

Robinson has risen to beryllium 1 of the best-performing Americans successful Europe's 5 large leagues, though helium volition miss the United States men's nationalist team's tally astatine the Concacaf Gold Cup.

The defender was near retired of Mauricio Pochettino's 27-player roster with the genu injury, alongside different mainstays Weston McKennie, Timothy Weah, Giovanni Reyna, Yunus Musah and Christian Pulisic.

Pulisic is taking clip disconnected aft a grueling play successful Europe that saw him play implicit 3,500 minutes for AC Milan. The USMNT brag defended the omission of his main stars astatine a quality league past week.

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"Many radical tin accidental it's truly important for america to beryllium each unneurotic for the past clip earlier the World Cup," helium said. "We decided the champion for him [Pulisic], the champion of the team, the champion for the nationalist squad is the determination that we made.

"Sometimes we springiness excessively overmuch value knowing to beryllium unneurotic and sometimes the radical possibly sometimes doesn't enactment successful this mode oregon physique successful this mode ... I deliberation it is important to make this challenge. I truly judge that to physique a squad is astir staying together, to person clip to work, yes, but I deliberation we cannot underestimate the player."

The U.S. begins its Gold Cup run connected June 15 with a radical signifier lucifer against Trinidad and Tobago. It past faces Saudi Arabia connected June 19 and Haiti connected June 22,