A trio of Col­orado Rapids play­ers were called up to the US Men’s Nation­al Team on Mon­day for its Decem­ber camp. Col­orado natives Cole Bas­sett and Sam Vines, as well as Kel­lyn Acos­ta, will head to Flori­da to pre­pare for a friend­ly against El Sal­vador on Dec. 9.

Bas­sett is get­ting his first senior team call-up. The 19-year-old from Lit­tle­ton had a break­out sea­son, scor­ing five goals and notch­ing five assists. Bas­sett scored four goals in four appear­ances ear­li­er in 2020 while play­ing for the US U‑20s.

Vines, 21, debuted for the nation­al team ear­li­er this sea­son, get­ting 77 min­utes of play­ing time in the Amer­i­cans’ 1–0 win over Cos­ta Rica. Vines played every sin­gle minute of Colorado’s reg­u­lar sea­son and became a more adept attack­er, scor­ing a goal and help­ing on three.

Acos­ta has made 23 appear­ances in red, white and blue, scor­ing two goals. Acos­ta had a steady third sea­son in Col­orado, tal­ly­ing the Rapids’ play­off-clinch­ing goal and mak­ing 15 starts.

The inter­na­tion­al sched­ule is loaded in 2021 with the Nations League, the Gold Cup and World Cup Qual­i­fy­ing. The US U‑23s also hope to qual­i­fy for the Tokyo Olympics, which were resched­uled from 2020. The con­ges­tion should favor oppor­tu­ni­ties for the three bur­gundy boys.