With no Pulisic and good results, have the USMNT moved on from their savior complex? | Leander Schaerlaeckens
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26-second readThe US have been defined for so long by the next singular player. This past perfect window shows that era may be over Sign up for our free newsletter here In 1990, then-United States men’s national team manager Bob Gansler made a critical and somewhat controversial choice.
He left three of the program’s laureled veterans at home and brought a young and little-tested team to the World Cup in Italy, the USA’s first in 40 years.
As Gansler recalled later: “I was thinking not only for ’90, but I was thinking about the 90s.”
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The US have been defined for so long by the next singular player.
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