That’s a nice PR move to call a bone bruise a micro-fracture, this does not change the fact that he played like complete garbage all game & has always been shit when the lights are bright.
Being injury is the icing on the cake for his legacy , made out of glass !
Finally dawned on me that Pulisic finally got the fan support he’s been complaining the team didn’t have for years just to have a generational stinker…..
Idk who needs to do this or who is in charge but @ussoccer NEEDS to send someone to Belgium ASAP to recruit Brandon Nozawa 🇺🇸🇯🇵
only 23 years old & one of the top performing keepers in that league
🇯🇵 already has an American as #1 keeper, we legit have a shot at this one.
#USMNT
My debut World Cup… it hurts to wait 4 years to compete at the highest level our sport has to offer. I want to say sorry to our fans it was not good enough when it mattered most and we let you down
Soccer in America will only become bigger the belief, the talent, and the passion is continually growing and I know the best days are in front of us, the future belongs to those who never stop believing, this moment will fuel us. We will be back
Why not us?
For the nation. For the flag.
🇺🇸🦅
B
I said Poch was a tactician. Not a motivator. The team needs motivation which on its own is pathetic but you’re not getting that from Poch. He’s never done that.
But toxic and negative right
The most depressing thing about loving soccer in the USA is seeing the pattern of everyone not care, then misunderstand, then get hype, then clown on soccer once the USMNT lose, then just move on.
Repeat every 4 years.
Honestly, I’d not mind if Pulisic announced that he retired from international soccer and left the USMNT 🇺🇸 alone.
It would be better for the team and himself.
He’d also get to rest a lot more, that’s a bonus.
Christian Pulisic really skipped an entire Gold Cup so that he could be fully fit for 2025/26, before dropping the worst season of his career for Milan and the USA.
248 minutes played in this tournament out of a possible 515…absolutely shambolic.
USMNT players need to feel the wrath of the media and fans after this pathetic performance. Unworthy of a World Cup stage.
This is not the time for moral victories. This is not the time for kumbaya. This is not the time to celebrate how this team brought people together.
If you applaud this mediocrity, you only condone mediocrity. Call them out, from the president of the federation to the goalkeeper. And EVERYONE in this team.
Especially the poster boy of this group: Christian Pulisic. He never asked to be the face of it all so why are we making him be that? He doesn’t lead. It doesn’t look like he wants to. And then chronically injured. You can’t be Captain America if you can’t carry the weight of the shield.
And he’s not the only one, by the way. You can point to a lot of the guys yesterday who weren’t up to the task. Chose whoever. Pulisic just happened to be the face of it all.
Every World Cup elimination we sit with our head in our hands asking questions about pay-to-play, what if our best athletes, did we take the right players, when are we going to make it?
This is the main reason we’re being held back. It’s nothing you don’t know:
Football in the US is institutionalized and corporatized. It’s a business first and then comes soccer. ACROSS the board. From US Soccer who prices out fans for ugly friendlies. To MLS’s closed system that rewards mediocrity. To clubs and academies that make it difficult for families to have their kids play soccer.
It’s all wrong. It was great in 1994 when we needed something to get up and running. But now we’re on the wrong trajectory. And our complacency will never redirect course.
Be disappointed, be angry. Call them out. Don’t reward this. You shouldn’t be feeling anything else. If not, we’ll never progress.