Klinsmann Calls in 25 for January Training Camp With 10 World Cup qualifiers scheduled during 2013, there is an unusual amount of attention focused on the coming U.S. men's soccer team training camp in Carson, Calif. Jurgen Klinsmann announced the roster Sunday afternoon, naming 25 players who will try to impress the coach and earn playing time in the Jan. 29 friendly against Canada in BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston. More importantly, the players on this squad will be hoping to find a place in the Hexagonal qualifiers that begin on Feb. 6 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and continue through October. Speaking on the Fox Soccer Channel, Klinsmann said, "There is good chance of 6, 7, 8 guys out of this group making Honduras." Here is the roster: GOALKEEPERS (3): Tally Hall (Houston Dynamo), Bill Hamid (D.C. United), Sean Johnson (Chicago Fire) DEFENDERS (9): Steven Beitashour (San Jose Earthquakes), Tony Beltran (Real Salt Lake), Matt Besler (Sporting Kansas City), A.J. DeLaGarza (LA Galaxy), Omar Gonzalez (LA Galaxy), Connor Lade (New York Red Bulls), Alfredo Morales (Hertha Berlin), Justin Morrow (San Jose Earthquakes), Jeff Parke (Philadelphia Union) MIDFIELDERS (8): Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake), Alejandro Bedoya (out of contract), Brad Davis (Houston Dynamo), Mix Diskerud (Rosenborg), Brad Evans (Seattle Sounders), Benny Feilhaber (Sporting Kansas City), Joshua Gatt (Molde), Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City) FORWARDS (5): Juan Agudelo (Chivas USA), Will Bruin (Houston Dynamo), Edson Buddle (Colorado Rapids), Eddie Johnson (Seattle Sounders), Chris Wondolowski (San Jose Earthquakes) As is traditional with January camps, the majority of players hail from Major League Soccer, which is on hiatus. All told, 21 of the 25 athletes play in the top American league. Eight players on the roster have yet to appear for the full national side: Beitashour, Beltran, Besler, Bruin, Hall, Lade, Morales and Morrow. Seattle Sounders forward Eddie Johnson is the senior-most man in camp. He leads this group in both international appearances (44) and goals (14). According to the Fox Soccer announcer Rob Stone, Jermaine Jones (currently serving a suspension for his Bundesliga side Schalke) and Maurice Edu (out of favor with his English Premier League club Stoke City) may be called in to the camp later. The M.L.S. stars Brek Shea, Alan Gordon, and Chris Pontius all missed the cut because of injury. Two Los Angeles Galaxy players figured prominently in the announcement. One because he made the list; the other because he is absent from it. Landon Donovan announced at the end of the 2012 M.L.S. season that he is uncertain about his soccer future, and as a result he will not be part of this training camp. Presumably, that means Donovan will not be a part of the team when it begins the final round of World Cup qualifying. "Landon has not been invited because obviously he is taking his break," Klinsmann said. He is thinking about his future. He is not at a point yet where he knows what he wants to do. It's as simple as that. We are as curious as anybody else to know what his decision will be in the future. Donovan's absence opens a roster spot for an attack-minded midfielder, which may be why Klinsmann included seven such players on this roster. The frontrunner for that role, however, might be Sacha Kljestan, who is enjoying a renaissance of sorts with his Belgian team Anderlecht. The Galaxy star who did make the cut, Omar Gonzalez, has long been a favorite of news media pundits and American soccer supporters who believe he has the talent and the physical tools to stabilize the Americans' shaky defense. The 6-foot-5 24-year-old center back has won just about every award you can win in M.L.S., including being named the M.V.P. of the 2012 M.L.S. Cup. "If it wasn't for his injury at the beginning of last year, he would have been with us already," Klinsmann said of Gonzalez. He needs to show he is ready for a big step into international football. He needs to show he is ready to guide a back line. Aside from Donovan's exclusion from the roster - which could change the dynamic of the starting 11 for some time - there are few surprises among the group. Alfredo Morales is a curious choice, seeing as he plays sparingly for his 2.Bundesliga side, Hertha Berlin, but the German newspaper Bild revealed that Morales was part of this squad a while back. The three goalkeepers - Hall, Hamid and Johnson - have only three caps among them, but that is unlikely to matter in the Hexagonal since Tim Howard and Brad Guzan are the clear Nos. 1 and 2. John Godfrey, a frequent contributor to the Goal blog, is editor in chief of a new soccer Web site, AmericanSoccerNow.com. Follow him on on Twitter.