{"id":3884,"date":"2026-03-23T15:15:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/usmnt-goalkeeper-patrick-schulte-replaces-roman-celentano-on-march-roster-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:15:26","slug":"usmnt-goalkeeper-patrick-schulte-replaces-roman-celentano-on-march-roster-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/usmnt-goalkeeper-patrick-schulte-replaces-roman-celentano-on-march-roster-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"USMNT goalkeeper Patrick Schulte replaces Roman Celentano on March roster &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. men&#8217;s national team has made a roster change ahead of March friendlies against Belgium and Portugal, with Patrick Schulte replacing fellow goalkeeper Roman Celentano.<br \/>The move, per U.S. Soccer, was &#8220;to avoid a potential injury\u00a0risk&#8221; for Celentano, who was kept out of FC Cincinnati\u2019s 4-3 win against CF Montreal on Sunday.<br \/>There was no further update on Celentano&#8217;s health issues.<br \/>In Celentano&#8217;s place comes Schulte, another Ohio-based MLS goalkeeper. The Columbus Crew man has made three appearances\u00a0for the USMNT since making his debut in 2024.<br \/>Schulte will join three other goalkeepers on the USMNT roster: Chris Brady, Matt Turner and presumed starter Matt Freese, who has started the past 12 games for the national team.<br \/>The USMNT will face Belgium on Saturday, March 28 at 3:30 p.m. ET at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, and will then take on Portugal on Tuesday, March 31 at 7 p.m. at the same venue.<br \/><strong>Goalkeepers (4)<\/strong>: Chris Brady (Chicago Fire; 0\/0), Matt Freese (New York City FC; 13\/0), Patrick Schulte (Columbus Crew; 3\/0),\u00a0Matt Turner (New England Revolution; 52\/0) \u00a0<br \/><strong>Defenders (9)<\/strong>: Max Arfsten (Columbus Crew; 16\/1), Alex Freeman (Villarreal\/ESP; 13\/2), Mark McKenzie (Toulouse\/FRA; 25\/0), Tim Ream (Charlotte FC; 79\/1), Chris Richards (Crystal Palace\/ENG; 35\/3), Antonee Robinson (Fulham\/ENG; 50\/4), Miles Robinson (FC Cincinnati; 38\/3), Joe Scally (Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach\/GER; 22\/0), Auston Trusty (Celtic\/SCO; 5\/0)\u00a0<br \/><strong>Midfielders (8)<\/strong>: Sebastian Berhalter (Vancouver Whitecaps\/CAN; 9\/1), Johnny Cardoso (Atletico Madrid\/ESP; 22\/0), Weston McKennie (Juventus\/ITA; 62\/11), Aidan Morris (Middlesbrough\/ENG; 13\/0), Gio Reyna (Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach\/GER; 34\/9), Cristian Roldan (Seattle Sounders; 43\/0), Tanner Tessmann (Olympique Lyon\/FRA; 12\/1); Malik Tillman (Bayer Leverkusen\/GER; 26\/3)\u00a0<br \/><strong>Forwards (6)<\/strong>: Brenden Aaronson (Leeds United\/ENG; 56\/9); Patrick Agyemang (Derby County\/ENG; 12\/5), Folarin Balogun (Monaco\/FRA; 23\/8), Ricardo Pepi (PSV Eindhoven\/NED; 34\/13), Christian Pulisic (AC Milan\/ITA; 82\/32), Tim Weah (Olympique Marseille\/FRA; 47\/7)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiuwFBVV95cUxNa1lFZkIzZVl6SjdRazAxRHFMNkV5eWZNNUpDRWl3QVBpZTBHNVNUMUF0cUt4VEtVblVyNUR4R1l1akRMSjQ5cjhpeWt4aVQ1eHctWnNyQkJaT0NlNGtZUkFIUS10V1RLSVVUTnFxQTFSbUJOS05HV0FBNExsMzE4ZHdlTG41eUVEMjhMa0VOZFFiTlRkd0dHdUY1V1FscGs0UnNOdTltbU9tUm9QdEdSQjloLUVya29ON2pz?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. men&#8217;s national team has made a roster change ahead of March friendlies against Belgium and Portugal, with Patrick Schulte replacing fellow goalkeeper Roman Celentano.The move, per U.S. Soccer, was &#8220;to avoid a potential injury\u00a0risk&#8221; for Celentano, who was kept out of FC Cincinnati\u2019s 4-3 win against CF Montreal on Sunday.There was no further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}