It is a whole new U.S. men’s national team picture following a home World Cup that featured exhilarating highs and an epic crashout.

The roster that reports to Fayetteville, Ga., next week for the first camp of the 2030 cycle will scarcely resemble that which lost to Belgium in July as Mauricio Pochettino called 12 uncapped players among a 28-man group for four friendlies over the next two weeks against Peru, Chile, Mexico and Canada.

The group includes 16-year-old wunderkind Cavan Sullivan, who has a goal or assist in seven of the past eight games in which he’s featured for the Philadelphia Union and represents the next great hope of American soccer.

It does not include Christian Pulisic, who has yet to start a game this season for Ruben Amorim’s AC Milan, though his contribution off the bench helped the Rossonieri salvage a draw at Lazio this past weekend and counted as a positive sign after the winger suffered a microfracture in his lower right leg at the World Cup.

Tempting as it is to read into Pulisic’s absence given that Pochettino has seemingly yet to forgive him for skipping the 2025 Gold Cup to rest, that may be a tad premature.

The circumstances of this camp — which represent the only unofficial games the USMNT will play in the near future, with the CONCACAF Nations League taking up the November and March windows — make it imperative for Pochettino to use it as a proving ground for the pool’s young talent.

Pulisic’s lack of games at the club level are also a factor and probably the most pressing concern as relates to his immediate outlook.

Ditto for Folarin Balogun, who is also absent from the roster and has yet to feature for AS Monaco following the collapse of his transfer to Premier League team Everton on deadline day.

Though there are 13 players on the roster who featured at the World Cup — Chris Richards, Sergiño Dest, Jedi Robinson, Alex Freeman, Tyler Adams, Gio Reyna and Malik Tillman among them — these weeks will be much more about the newcomers.

Of that contingent, 11 of the 12 uncapped players to be called in are 21 and under, with goalkeeper Brian Schwake the sole exception.

Zavier Gozo, the 19-year-old who transferred this summer from Real Salt Lake to England’s Crystal Palace, was the closest of that group to making the World Cup roster. But a number of them look like they have serious roles to play in the lead-up to 2030.

In the midfield, 17-year-olds Adri Mehmeti — who plays for Red Bull New York — and Dortmund’s Mathis Albert count among the most promising.

Yunus Musah, who fell out of favor with Pochettino after skipping the Gold Cup and was left off the World Cup roster, also will get another shot here.

All four uncapped players listed as forwards — Sullivan, Justin Ellis, Julian Hall and Cole Campbell — are tantalizing as well, though with the possible exception of the Red Bulls’ Hall, none profile as the same sort of goalscoring center forward as Balogun.

On defense, Neil Pierre and Peyton Miller are two teenagers who will be closely watched.

Diego Kochen, one of the USMNT’s practice keepers during the World Cup, will get to be a part of camp for real as well, having earned a starting job for Lyngby in the Danish League.

USMNT September/October roster

Goalkeepers (4): Chris Brady (Chicago Fire; 1/0), Matt Freese (New York City FC; 19/0), Diego Kochen (Lyngby Boldklub/DEN; 0/0), Brian Schwake (Nashville SC; 0/0) 

Defenders (10): George Campbell (West Bromwich Albion FC/ENG; 1/0), Sergiño Dest (PSV Eindhoven/NED; 44/3), Alex Freeman (Villarreal/ESP; 22/3), Peyton Miller (New England Revolution; 0/0), Neil Pierre (Philadelphia Union; 0/0), Chris Richards (Crystal Palace/ENG; 40/3), Antonee Robinson (Fulham/ENG; 58/5), Miles Robinson (FC Cincinnati; 41/3), Auston Trusty (Celtic/SCO; 10/1), Frankie Westfield (Philadelphia Union; 0/0)

Midfielders (9): Tyler Adams (AFC Bournemouth/ENG; 58/2), Mathis Albert (Borussia Dortmund/GER; 0/0), Sebastian Berhalter (Middlesbrough/ENG; 18/2), Zavier Gozo (Crystal Palace/ENG; 0/0), Adri Mehmeti (Red Bull New York; 0/0), Yunus Musah (AC Milan/ITA; 47/1), Brooklyn Raines (New England Revolution; 0/0), Gio Reyna (RC Strasbourg Alsace/FRA; 43/10), Malik Tillman (Bayer Leverkusen/GER; 35/5)

Forwards (5): Cole Campbell (SV Elversberg/GER; 0/0); Justin Ellis (Orlando City SC; 0/0), Julian Hall (Red Bull New York; 0/0), Ricardo Pepi (PSV Eindhoven/NED; 42/13), Cavan Sullivan (Philadelphia Union; 0/0