While the Union are hosting Atlas FC in a friendly at Subaru Park tonight, the bigger attention will be on Hartford this afternoon as the USMNT takes on Turkey in a friendly at 3:30 p.m. Quinn Sullivan is in line to make his senior team debut and he has a lot of local company on the team. Another big game with local implications kicks off this morning as West Chester United takes on El Farolito in the Hank Steinbrecher Cup semifinal that was postponed last night.

In the email today:

1. 🇺🇸 U(NION)SMNT

Quinn Sullivan and Nathan Harriel will have plenty of familiar company on the U.S. roster for the upcoming Concacaf Gold Cup with five other academy graduates on Mauricio Pochettino’s 26-player roster for the tournament.

Sullivan and Harriel have both been in the pre-tournament camp with the senior national team. They are joined on the roster by former teammates Jack McGlynn, Matt Freese and Paxten Aaronson along with Brenden Aaronson and Mark McKenzie.

Six of the seven academy grads on the team also graduated from YSC Academy while Freese is an Episcopal Academy grad. Brian White, a New Jersey native who played his academy soccer at PDA, was also part of the Union’s academy when it was a club neutral training program and was an outside back on the Union U-17 team coached by Jim Curtin that won the 2012 Generation adidas Cup.

Both Sullivan and Harriel will miss the Union’s next league match against Charlotte FC on June 14 and would miss the game at Columbus (June 29) and Nashville (July 5) if the U.S. makes it to the final on July 6 in Houston. Andre Blake (Jamaica) and Danley Jean Jacques (Haiti) will also miss the June 14 game while away with their national teams at the Gold Cup.

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2. 🏆 West Chester United Takes on El Farolito in New Hampshire

With the success of multiple teams in multiple leagues and cup competitions, it can be dizzying trying to keep track of all of the success West Chester United is experiencing. This weekend is no different.

This morning a team is in Manchester, N.H. to take on the defending NPSL champions and U.S. Open Cup amateur darlings El Farolito in their defense of a national title they won two years ago in Arizona.

The Hank Steinbrecher Cup took last year off and returns with a heavy heart following the death of the its namesake. West Chester United and El Farolito - along with the two teams in the other semifinal - will honor the memory and legacy of Steinbrecher, a former US Soccer Secretary General Hank Steinbrecher who is remembered as “a towering figure in the development and popularization of soccer in the United States.”

West Chester’s match kicks off at 9 a.m. and will be streamed live. Should they win they will play in the final on Sunday against the winner of the Seacoast United vs Houston Regals semifinal, which follows their game this morning.

3. 💊 Social Post of the Day: Hard Pill

4. 💧 Water Cooler: Players Ratings Poll

Results from the FC Dallas Draw:

“24 shots taken. Only 1 shot on target. Not good enough.”

“Lack of finishing even with good service into the box. I hope Damiani has a breakthrough soon.”

“Union seemed tired. More lacking mental edge than physical.”

5. 🔗 Link Roundup

• The Philadelphia Union defense is back after a head scratching 2024 campaign, but this time it’s different.

• Brenden and Paxten joined a media call either this week ahead of today’s match in Hartford.

• Fresh off their second straight State Presidents Cup win, the VE Mountaineers will be one of the local teams competing the US Youth Soccer Eastern Presidents Cup starting next week at The Proving Grounds and Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School. Earlier this week, the team took on VE’s U-23 team - who are prepping for the Region 1 U-23 tournament - on the clubhouse field.

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