Keller expects to be in the net for the National Team in 2010!

Kasey Keller doesn't consider himself a has been. He's a starting goalkeeper and hopes to be the starter for the 2010 World Cup team.

The U.S. starter at the 1998 and 2006 World Cups, Keller will be 40 by the time the 2010 tournament opens in South Africa.

If Keller is picked for the U.S. roster at the 2010 tournament, he'd be part of a small group to be selected for five World Cups. He was a backup in both 1990 and 2002.

Meanwhile Keller has made 25 Bundesliga appearances this season for last-place Borussia Moenchengladbach in Germany.

"From my first trips with the national team in '89, it's been an astronomical change in the game," Keller said in a CNNSI article. "We have a long ways to go, but we also have a tremendous amount of competition to compete against. I think if we continue the good steady growth we've had over the last 15, 16, 20 years, I think this sport will be in a perfect position come 2015, 2020."

Let's hope Keller is right and that he continues to compete.