@PeteNakos@ryandownton@On3@JoeTipton They'll like win with a local state judge, but this argument should get tossed - Mikey got a toy and I didn't, waaaaa.
@Scottishborn_@SportsCenter@AdamSchefter Agree with Landon. The problem is time and money.
American football, for the elite, use to be a seven year ride. The same baseball player is ten, and soccer there is no path to that $.
Why would any American kid take that path, other countries don't have the competition.
Mere months after making his USMNT debut as a 17-year-old, Christian Pulisic approached Jürgen Klinsmann with a request: Can I leave camp for a night to attend my hometown senior prom?
“I don’t know how important something like that is, I didn’t grow up in the U.S.,” Klinsmann told The Athletic. “I told him to give me a couple minutes.”
Klinsmann called his wife, Debbie, who is U.S. born and raised, to get her thoughts. He wasn’t sure just how much a prom can mean to a kid. She quickly explained and, in fact, she implored her husband to say yes.
Are you serious? Klinsmann asked his wife. She insisted: Absolutely you have to let him go.
Klinsmann took her guidance to heart. He relayed to Pulisic: You’re clear to go as long as you’re back in time the next morning.
Prom was the day before the USMNT faced Bolivia. That night, Pulisic became the youngest goalscorer in USMNT history.
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