The United States Men’s National Team is entering a new era. They announced that as soon as the humiliating failure to qualify for the summer’s World Cup was complete. Out with the old guard, or at least some of the old guard, and in with the new.
That meant that there was an opportunity for a new raft of superstars to take centre stage as the leading lights of U.S. soccer, Christian Pulisic perhaps being the brightest candidate with his move to Borussia Dortmund establishing him on not just a domestic but also a European level.