Marc Rzatowski will be battling for a spot on the Red Bulls roster. (Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports)

The Red Bulls travel to Bradenton, Fla. Monday with 35 players for the first of two preseason camps.

New York will stay in Bradenton until Feb. 2, when the team returns home for a week of training before traveling to Tucson, Ariz. for the Mobile Mini Sun Cup.

The preseason camp roster includes 22 of 24 players on the first-team roster. Center back Aaron Long will miss the first trip due to U.S. men’s national team camp, while midfielder Cristian Casseres, Jr., is with the Venezuelan Under-20 men’s national team.

German midfielder Marc Rzatkowski, whose loan ended at the end of 2018, will join the Red Bulls in camp along with Marcus Epps, who the Red Bulls selected in the Major League Soccer waiver draft in December. Red Bulls Academy product Omir Fernandez and 2018 NYRB II defender Allen Yanes also join the Red Bulls in Bradenton.

Four players contracted to Red Bull II will join camp, along with four of the Red Bulls’ 2019 MLS SuperDraft picks.

Current Red Bulls Academy defender John Tolkin also will be in camp. Tolkin, an outside back, just completed a January camp with the U.S. Men’s U-17 team.

The roster

Goalkeepers (3):

Evan Louro, Ryan Meara, Luis Robles

Defenders (13):

Roy Boateng*, Rece Buckmaster*, Kyle Duncan, Connor Lade, Kemar Lawrence, Janos Loebe*, Michael Amir Murillo, Sean Nealis*, Tim Parker, Jordan Scarlett#, Amro Tarek, John Tolkin^, Allen Yanes

Aaron Long – away with USMNT

Midfielders (15):

Vincent Bezecourt, Sean Davis, Marcus Epps, Derrick Etienne, Jr., Omir Fernandez, Andreas Ivan, Kaku, Jean-Cristophe Koffi, Chris Lema#, Ben Mines, Alex Muyl, Danny Royer, Marc Rzatkowski, Jared Stroud#, Florian Valot

Casseres Jr. – away with Venezuela U-20 MNT

Forwards (4): Anatole Abang, Tom Barlow#, Brian White, Bradley Wright-Phillips

Key: * – 2019 draft pick, # – NYRB II player, ^ – current academy player

Front Row Soccer editor Michael Lewis has covered 13 World Cups (eight men, five women), seven Olympics and 25 MLS Cups. He has written about New York City FC, New York Cosmos, the New York Red Bulls and both U.S. national teams for Newsday and has penned a soccer history column for the Guardian.com. Lewis, who has been honored by the Press Club of Long Island and National Soccer Coaches Association of America, is the former editor of BigAppleSoccer.com. He has written seven books about the beautiful game and has published ALIVE AND KICKING The incredible but true story of the Rochester Lancers. It is available at Amazon.com.