Two Bruins named to USA's U-20 World Cup Squad

The US men's soccer team won everyone's attention in South Africa earlier this summer, and now there is another tournament in Africa coming up--the U-20 World Cup, hosted in Egypt.  For those not familiar with the soccer lingo, U-20 is the team for players under 20 years old...hopefully, the future stars of the senior team. 

Two current Bruins have been named to the roster: midfielder Michael Stephens, last season's Pac-10 player of the year and the leading scorer (goals, assists) for UCLA last season, and goalkeeper Brian Perk, who did not concede a goal in four straight games in qualification for the tournament, and who has only let in 1 goal in 8 games for the US U-20s. 

Both players were recently named to Soccer America's college soccer preseason All-American team.  If you want to read more about the tournament, FIFA has a page for the American team, and they single out Perk as one of the star players for the Americans.  Also worth reading is a Goal.com interview with Perk.  ESPN will be covering the tournament, so you can see all 3 of the USA's group games--it's definitely a tough group.  Games against Germany (Sept. 26, ESPN Classic @ 6:55am Pacific time), Cameroon (Sept. 29, ESPN2 @ 9:30am), and South Korea (Oct. 2, ESPN2 @ 9:40am).

Go Bruins!