Why This Young USMNT Roster Feels Different | American Soccer, Explained

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The first USMNT roster of the new World Cup cycle is loaded with young player, including Cavan Sullivan at just 16. But the exciting part isn’t simply that the roster is young. It’s why this group feels different from the young American teams we’ve gotten excited about before. In this episode of American Soccer, Explained, I look at four things that make this group so interesting: It’s not one wonderkid. It’s a wave of prospects across almost every position. They aren’t being asked to save the national team. They’re coming into a USMNT that already has established players entering their prime. They have a four-year runway toward 2030, with the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics sitting right in the middle of it. And maybe most importantly: is American soccer finally producing enough good players that we don’t need every highly rated prospect to become a star? The Pulisic generation showed us how high an American player could go. This generation might tell us whether American soccer has

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