{"id":624102,"date":"2025-08-25T05:38:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/?p=624102"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:42:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:42:24","slug":"thomas-muller-accidentally-reveals-usmnt-call-up-for-whitecaps-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/thomas-muller-accidentally-reveals-usmnt-call-up-for-whitecaps-defender\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas M\u00fcller Accidentally Reveals USMNT Call-Up for Whitecaps Defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas M&uuml;ller stole the headlines both on and off the pitch on Saturday night. Notably, the Vancouver Whitecaps new signing not only scored a late penalty in a 3-2 comeback win over St. Louis City SC, but also accidentally broke some USMNT national team news.<\/p><p>In his post-match press conference, M&uuml;ller let slip that teammate Tristan Blackmon is set to receive his first-ever call-up to the U.S. men&rsquo;s national team for upcoming international friendlies. The USMNT have friendlies lined up against South Korea and Japan in September, followed by matches with Ecuador and Australia in October. <\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thomas M&uuml;ller Accidentlly Makes Big Revelation<\/h2><p>U.S. coach Mauricio Pochettino has not yet announced his squad for the friendlies. While M&uuml;ller didn&rsquo;t confirm which camp Blackmon will join, his comments all but confirm that the defender will finally get his long-awaited chance to represent his country.<\/p><p><strong>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/i-will-hunt-messi-again-thomas-muller-warns-lionel-messi-after-mls-debut-with-vancouver-whitecaps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>I Will Hunt Messi Again: Thomas M&uuml;ller Warns Lionel Messi After MLS Debut With Vancouver Whitecaps<\/a><\/strong><\/p><p>&ldquo;<em>With the new signings coming in, they have a little bit more time. On the other hand, we&rsquo;re playing during international break in October, we were missing some guys at this moment, and now Tristan is nominated for the U.S.,<\/em>&rdquo; M&uuml;ller said before laughing and realizing the announcement had not yet been made official.<\/p><p>The German quickly tried to backtrack, jokingly attempting to &ldquo;swallow&rdquo; his words, but the news was already out. &ldquo;<em>In the end, it is what it is. I heard what I heard. Congrats to Tristan and congrats to the U.S.<\/em>,&rdquo; he added with a cheeky smile.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thomas M&uuml;ller: Der Newsbreaker<br><br>Jesse Marsch had been talking with Vancouver Whitecaps CB Tristan Blackmon about potentially playing for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CanMNT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>#CanMNT<\/a>.<br><br>The U.S. didn&rsquo;t like that. <br>M&uuml;ller spilled the beans in his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VANvSTL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>#VANvSTL<\/a> avail that Blackmon has been called up by the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USMNT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>#USMNT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BjDOtLQumU\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>pic.twitter.com\/BjDOtLQumU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Canadian Soccer Daily (@CANSoccerDaily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CANSoccerDaily\/status\/1959529451592482901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>August 24, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure><p><strong>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/rasmus-hojlund-from-napoli-be-a-tactical-fir-at-napoli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>Does the transfer of Rasmus H&oslash;jlund from United Fit Tactically at Napoli?<\/a><\/strong><\/p><p>Blackmon has been a mainstay for Vancouver over the past four seasons, anchoring the defense during their run to three Canadian Championship titles and a CONCACAF Champions Cup Final. He previously won the 2022 MLS Cup with LAFC and has played 171 MLS matches, tallying seven goals and seven assists. Despite his consistency, this would be his first official senior call-up, after only making the 60-man preliminary roster for the 2025 Gold Cup.<\/p><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"mm-layout mm-layout-type-post mm-layout-slot4\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas M&uuml;ller stole the headlines both on and off the pitch on Saturday night. Notably, the Vancouver Whitecaps new signing not only scored a late penalty in a 3-2 comeback win over St. Louis City SC, but also accidentally broke some USMNT national team news. In his post-match press conference, M&uuml;ller let slip that teammate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":624103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mux_skip_reasons":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4039,4038],"tags":[5333,9400,4761,4114],"class_list":["post-624102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mls-soccer","category-soccer","tag-thomas-muller","tag-tristan-blackmon","tag-usmnt","tag-vancouver-whitecaps"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thomas M&uuml;ller Accidentally Reveals USMNT Call-Up for Whitecaps Defender - The Playoffs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"M&uuml;ller let slip that teammate Tristan Blackmon is set to receive first-ever call-up to the U.S. men&rsquo;s national team for upcoming friendlies.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/thomas-muller-accidentally-reveals-usmnt-call-up-for-whitecaps-defender\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thomas M&uuml;ller Accidentally Reveals USMNT Call-Up for Whitecaps Defender - 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