The U.S.'s Leadership Council has supplanted a more typical captaincy, with the matchday armband rotating throughout Gregg Berhalter's tenure as coach.
Mexican-American rising star Efraín Álvarez is deciding which nation to represent, and the U.S. coach wants him to have all the information possible before choosing.
Yunus Musah becomes the latest young, rising talent to pick the U.S. over other international options, and he has the potential to be a difference-maker.