U.S. men’s national team coach Bob Bradley has named Colorado Rapids forward Conor Casey to his 20-man roster that will train in advance of the FIFA World Cup qualifier against Mexico next Wednesday in Mexico City.

Casey has 14 career caps with the national team and appeared in four games for the U.S. in their second-place run at the FIFA Confederations Cup run in June.

The U.S. will be seeking their first victory on Mexican soil, with kickoff set for 2 p.m. (Mountain time) at Estadio Azteca, famed for its grueling combination of altitude, smog and more than 100,000 spectators.

The match will be broadcast live on Telemundo and the Futbol de Primera Radio Networks. Fans can follow live online via twitter and via ussoccer.com’s match tracker. I most likely will be twittering, too. Or tweeting. Whatever.

Additionally, ESPN will provide studio coverage, which marks the first time in its 30-year history that ESPN will air a live pregame show for a soccer event it is not televising.

The U.S. team will gather Monday in Miami and will depart for Mexico on Tuesday.

The United States is 0-22-1 in Mexico. The one draw came in 1997, when the U.S., down a man for nearly an hour, earned a 0-0 tie in World Cup qualifying at Estadio Azteca.

The Yanks are in second place with 10 points in the final round of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup. Mexico sits in fourth place in the group with a 2-3 record. The top three teams automatically advance to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, while the fourth-place team will participate in a two-leg playoff against the fifth-place team from South America.

Costa Rica leads the group with 12 points.

In other CONCACAF qualifying action Aug. 12, third-place Honduras hosts Costa Rica and winless Trinidad & Tobago welcomes El Salvador.

The U.S. will host El Salvador on Sept. 5 in Salt Lake City before traveling to face Trinidad & Tobago on Sept. 9 in Port-of-Spain.

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