Holden injury blow for U.S.

Thursday, 04 March 10, 02:23 PM · Comments (0)

It turns out that Nigel de Jong's rather unfriendly tackle on Stuart Holden yesterday left the promising young talent with a broken fibula. The injury will keep him out of action for up to six weeks.

And while the blow may not be severe for the U.S. men's team, for Holden it's a worsened by the fact he'd been improving for his new club Bolton and had recently forced his way into the first team. Now, he won't see the pitch until April at the earliest.

The result is yet another player to suffer an injury and it makes Bob Bradley's job infinitely harder. Not that it was easy to begin with. But the U.S. tendency to rely on a few players -- Oguchi Onyewu, Landon Donovan, Michael Bradley and Clint Dempsey -- magnifies the lack of depth, and losing a quality player like Holden will hurt that even more.

That means that along with Onyewu and Charlie Davies, the U.S. can add another player to the list of question marks to be in game-playing shape when the World Cup begins.

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