Scapegoating Christian Pulisic for USMNT World Cup defeat is neither fair nor accurate originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
Perhaps it is a sign of this country’s growth as a soccer nation that the United States men’s national team’s best player is being harangued by the public and media for the offense of playing terribly in an essential World Cup game.
And then getting injured.
It’s hard to imagine, though, Christian Pulisic thinking of this as progress.
“I’d be perfectly fine if we never see Christian Pulisic in a USMNT uniform again,” wrote the Mr.InvisibleTexan account on X/Twitter.
Perhaps it is a sign of this country’s growth as a soccer nation that the United States men’s national team’s best player is being harangued by the public and media for the offense of playing terribly in an essential World Cup game.
And then getting injured.
It’s hard to imagine, though, Christian Pulisic thinking of this as progress.
“I’d be perfectly fine if we never see Christian Pulisic in a USMNT uniform again,” wrote the Mr.InvisibleTexan account on X/Twitter.
4 months ago
