World Cup qualifying is over and the United States Men's National Team is set to play two friendlies in the next eight days that could tell us a lot about what fringe players have a chance to go to South Africa. With Charlie Davies almost certainly out for the World Cup and Oguchi Onyewu and Jermaine Jones being massive question marks, there's room for a lot of players to make a name for themselves. Unfortunately, the MLS playoffs are preventing us from looking at many of these so-called fringe players as a part of the national team setup. As a result, we see a few players in the squad that have almost no chance of making the World Cup 23 man roster, and it's unlikely the picture will be any more clear after these friendlies.

A couple of days ago, Jason asked me to come up with my World Cup 23. I drafted up my roster, assuming that Charlie Davies will be unavailable, and that Onyewu and Jones will be. Here it is for everyone, after the jump.

Tim Howard
Brad Guzan
Troy Perkins
Jonathan Bornstein
Jonathan Spector
Carlos Bocanegra
Steve Cherundolo
Edgar Castillo
Jay Demerit
Oguchi Onyewu
Chad Marshall
Maurice Edu
Jermaine Jones
Landon Donovan
Clint Dempsey
Michael Bradley
Stuart Holden
Benny Feilhaber
Jose Francisco Torres
Jose Altidore
Conor Casey
Robbie Findley
Brian Ching

What I think the first XI WILL be:

GK Howard
LB Bornstein
CB Onyewu
CB Bocanegra
RB Cherundolo
CM Edu
CM Bradley
LW Dempsey
RW Donovan
ST Casey
ST Altidore

What I think the starting XI SHOULD be

GK Howard
LB Castillo
CB Onyewu
CB Bocanegra
RB Spector
CM Jones
CM Torres
LW Donovan
RW Dempsey
ST Altidore
ST Findley

Okay guys, what do you think? Am I the good kind of crazy? The bad kind of crazy? Spot on? Borderline retarded? Leave your comments below.