LONDON — For club and country, Clint Dempsey will do what has to be done.

His club team, Tottenham Hotspur, is vying for a vital top-four finish in the English Premier League. His United States team is about to begin the final stage of its bid to reach next year’s World Cup in Brazil.

As a prominent member of both squads, Dempsey is being tugged from one side of the Atlantic to the other, and then back, and being asked to play a preposterous number of important games in a condensed time period. It is the kind of schedule that would leave the most hardened business traveler exhausted, but the 29-year-old Dempsey, whose toughness has been a constant of his career, is taking it all in stride.

After playing in a 1-1 draw against Norwich City on Wednesday, Dempsey could be back on the field on Sunday, when Tottenham plays at West Bromwich Albion. A day later, the midfielder will board a plane to Miami. He will then fly to Honduras with the United States squad for Wednesday’s World Cup qualifying match and fly back to Florida immediately after the game.

From there, he will board another plane on Thursday that will land in London early Friday, allowing him just enough time to reorient himself before a lunchtime game on Saturday against Newcastle.