Throughout his development at Borussia Dortmund, Christian Pulisic was always viewed as a potentially world-class player. While he was overhyped slightly because he was American and any vaguely decent American player is immediately championed like they are the second coming of Pele, Pulisic certainly boasted more talent than any other American player before him.
And so, as he slowly started to earn more minutes in Germany, the 2016/17 season the first significant campaign of his career, the excitement regarding his future, and the expectations of his performances on the pitch, started to grow, somewhat uncontrollably.
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