A club champion, Hershey's Christian Pulisic yearns for World Cup stage with the United States men's national soccer team.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Christian Pulisic looked like the weight of millions of American soccer fans had been lifted from his shoulders. The first American to play in and win a Champions League final, Pulisic struggled in January, was played out of position by Chelsea and even was benched for a World Cup qualifier against Honduras.
Now all the U.S. has to do to qualify for this November’s tournament in Qatar is to not lose by six goals or more at Costa Rica on Wednesday night. The Americans have nine losses, one draw and no wins in qualifiers at Costa Rica, but they haven’t lost by six goals anywhere since a 1979 friendly against France, and not in a competitive match since 1957 at Mexico.
He is part of a new era of American soccer that left home during high school and debuted for a big-name club in a big-time European league, with Weston McKennie and Gio Reyna following.Pulisic was given the captain’s armband for the eighth time, matching Tyler Adams, also just 23.
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