U.S. team starts final pre-World Cup exhibitions today against

WASHINGTON -- Less than three weeks before the start of the World Cup, the United States still can't get its full team together.

When the Americans play Uruguay on Sunday at RFK Stadium, the first of three exhibition games in an eight-day span, they'll be missing midfielders Claudio Reyna, John O'Brien and Eddie Lewis, along with goalkeeper Kasey Keller. All four were in Europe for their clubs' final games of the season this weekend.

"We're not at our best right now but we're not supposed to be. Our whole focus is June 5," U.S. coach Bruce Arena said Saturday, referring to the date of his team's World Cup opener. "I want to continue to see that the team is starting to look like a team. That takes time with national teams that don't have a lot of time together."

After playing Uruguay, the eighth World Cup-bound opponent for the Americans this year, the U.S. team faces Jamaica on Thursday in East Rutherford, N.J., then concludes its 14-game pre-World Cup schedule against the Netherlands on May 19 in Foxboro, Mass.