With Christian Pulisic struggling for playing time at Chelsea—and the U.S. set to face England in the World Cup—JohnGonzalez went to London to find out what the English think of the U.S.’s top star The short answer: Not bloody much
“Pulisic ‘cannot be trusted’ and is not the ‘focal point’ of the USMNT” and “‘Captain America’ is overhyped.” And after Pulisic didn’t play a minute in the Blues’ consecutive road wins over Milan and Aston Villa,In fairness to Pulisic, it’s easy to forget everything that got him to this point. He excelled at Dortmund, meriting the $73 million transfer fee to Chelsea, but since then he’s been nagged by injuries and has played for three different managers in four seasons.
“There’s probably not going to be anyone more excited to step on that plane and go to Qatar than Christian Pulisic is,” Lalas said. “It is maybe a welcome change of scenery. And he’s going back to a team and a cocoon, if you will, that’s very warm and welcoming to him.
“He probably feels an enormous amount of pressure,” Heath Pearce, a USMNT defender turned CBS soccer commentator, told me. “If you go back to the 2018 cycle, there was a lot of pressure on a few people to be the ones that delivered. … Now there’s this realization that, Which is exactly how the commercial ends, with Pulisic playing the hero. Maybe he will have a Hollywood moment in Qatar, but for that to happen he’ll have to somehow reemerge as the U.S.’s leading man while remaining little more than a marginalized understudy at Chelsea. That’s obviously not great for him or the USMNT, and it presents quite a few challenges—for the player and his manager.
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