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Final American warm-up

AFP, Washington
With the United States starting a three-game final tune-up for the World Cup here Sunday against Uruguay, coach Bruce Arena has fired a warning shot at star forward Clint Mathis -- get fit or sit.
Arena has worried about Mathis' training habits with his club team,
Major League Soccer's New York-New Jersey MetroStars, and the shape he arrived in for the team's training camp before the World Cup in Japan and South Korea.
"He is probably our best goal scorer," Arena said. "But if we don't think that his fitness is at a level where he can be a factor for 90 minutes, he will have to play less."
That could mean Mathis could be pulled early or come on as a sub. Since returning from a knee injury, Mathis has scored five goals in eight games for the US team, so expecta-
tions are high for the striker in Asia next month.
"I think it's a combination of his environment with his club team and the fact that Clint is not always fully accountable for himself," Arena said. "That's something he has to do a little bit more of. Whenever we have him in camp he works hard. But we don't have control of him 24 hours a day, year-round."
Some of the world's top teams would like him that way. Craig Sharon, Mathis' agent, visited Perugia of the Italian league last
week. Mathis, 25, made a stop at Bayern Munich before reporting to camp.
Both clubs might sign Mathis before the Cup begins, with MLS reaping a transfer fee of five to six million dollars for a player whose salary in the US league is reportedly a paltry 250,000 dollars.
MLS is a single-entity league, meaning all contracts are signed with the league and players are allocated to clubs, as Mathis is to the MetroStars.
While he stood out for the US
team in World Cup warm-ups, Mathis was less than stellar and a disappointment for the MetroStars with two goals in five games.
On several occasions, Mathis was content to give a teammate a square pass instead of taking on a defender as he did the past two seasons.
Perhaps he still is cautious about re-injuring his left knee again. The first US match at the World Cup, June 5 against Portugal, comes a year to the day from the date on which Mathis tore knee ligaments.