USMNT to postpone Thanksgiving dinner ahead of World Cup match vs England

In what will probably become the biggest game of their lives as professionals, the United States Men's National Soccer Team (USMNT) decided to postpone Thanksgiving dinner. As it usually happens, all Americans gather with their families to celebrate tthe holiday. Likely most of that players currently in Qatar brought members of their own families but manager Gregg Berhalter made a crucial decision. There will be no Thanksgiving dinner tonoght for any of the players.

If they act carelessly with their diet just a day before facing the toughest opponent of their group, chances are it will affect in some way. In order to avoid any issues with this, the manager and the players made a collective decisions for everybody's benefit. But the dinner is by no means canceled, they decided to move it to Saturday at their team hotel in Doha. In fact, there will be about 205 family members joining everybody in the celebrations. A dinner that will take place in the evening, which will be after the crucial game vs the Three Lions.