Brad Guzan, hits the ball against Tottenham Hotspur in March, reported to humiliate this season a single win Aston Villa. (Tim Keeton / EPA)
SAN JOSE - The essential features of a football goalkeeper is in good hands, quick feet and a short memory. Goal in mind. The party works.
This spring, Brad Guzan to flush the memory of more than one target or a game.
I had to clean mental rest a bad season 9 months.
"As soon as the last game ended as soon as I'm on the plane to Miami for the start of the camp toward [training]," the veteran of the national team of the United States, said on Tuesday: "I am only concentrated, and this was part of this team . "
There was to be much behind. In the fourth year option first goal Guzan as Aston Villa, the Premier League club won three of 38 games and was exiled in 29 years for the first time on the second tranche of England.
Guzan, 31, was on the net profit of the season in Bournemouth last August for the opening, none of his other 27 starts League not won, losing 22 and five draws. The debt fell from top to bottom in the list, not only in Homer Glen, Ill., Native.
And when the bitter campaign had Aston Villa a happy ending and the team of the United States gathered in Florida for the Copa America Centenario prepare a tournament with the likes of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, coach Juergen Klinsmann called Guzan as a starter before the 2014 World Cup hero Tim Howard.
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US Group A on Friday against Colombia will open in Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
Klinsmann argument? Guzan has had a difficult year, but at least played. Howard, 37, lost the starting job at Everton in winter. Apart from two final games of the season, after 10 last years the house marked his last appearance, which was a spectator in the second half of the season. After the Copa America Howard Colorado Rapids will join in MLS.
It was more in the decision Klinsmann: After the World Cup in Brazil, a leave of absence Howard took a year in the national team. Guzan, the deputy of life and twice World Cup reserve, was the clear starter motor.
back to last fall by Howard revived competition. Guzan started CONCACAF Cup against Mexico. Qualifications were distributed for the World Cup in November and March, with Howard taking charge of games away annoying (a draw or defeat).
If Guzan and Howard in stock there reported 2 1/2 weeks, Klinsmann took her aside and explained his decision Copa America.
"It is a process that went through, was not very nice," Klinsmann season Aston Villa Guzan said said. "On the other hand I know very well. I know who he is. I know the strengths, weaknesses.
"They expect once behind installed from the situation of the association with itself and remains constant to make the national team. In the last two years it was very solid, with very constant.
"He deserves it at this time that have the number."
Howard said Klinsmann was "first class" to accept the role of reserve.
Guzan started all three friendlies before the Cup and conceded a goal (a strike miracles, Puerto Rico). Howard played in the second half of the first game, watching the other.
The third goalkeeper, Norway resident Ethan Horvath, reported this week to the camp. He turns 21 on June 9, and has yet to make an appearance for the senior team.
Veteran guards were good friends for years and during its seasons of the Premier League another by assisted calls and messages pouring - Birmingham Guzan, Howard Liverpool.
"I've always said that if you can build a keeper and you could take your hands like this, the feet of this guardian, would the brain be Brad," Howard ESPNFC.com said. "For me, the spirit of the best goalkeepers I had to."
Guzan takes a strong spirit of the season Aston Villa, the worst in the history of 127 years of the club to resist. Apart from the problems on the ground, he was involved in an incident of this area.
In January in what the British tabloids as "Goma-door" Guzan and teammate Joleon Lescott trips Villa annoying fans have a spitting contest chewing gum on the bench during a game of the FA Cup against Wycombe. The season was bad enough, and now the players are not seem to care?
Fans take the transparent canoe. Players have to and have responded with expletives. Captain Micah Roberts intervened and coach Remi Garde issued a statement after the game.
The result was the beginning of a two-month stretch in which he recorded Guzan Form # 2 behind English Mark Bunn on the depth chart. In March, however, the US was back in goodwill.
The losses, however, continue to rise.
Aston Villa exile has fueled speculation that was an action Guzan could initiate a high-level club in England or elsewhere in Europe. Aston Villa starts the long climb into the Premier League one-year contract, said that it plans to report training camp in July and help.
Despite the poor season in England, Guzan said he does not believe that its value must be confirmed, while the United States Department this summer.
"I had good seasons, I did it myself and save the result in terms of playing at the highest level," he said. "I had the opportunity to be a part of the national team for several years, so certainly no added pressure" in the Copa America.
Klinsmann is confident Guzan the team of the United States associated with a clear mind.
"Brad now very sure seems very balanced," he said. "And it seems that left behind this year."
Brad Guzan seen here against Ecuador last week securing Tim Howard was in the last two World Cups. (Tony Gutierrez / AP)
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