Jordan Morris has been one of the most polarizing players in the US men’s national team pool almost ever since he came onto the scene.
Even before his professional days, Morris rubbed many USMNT fans the wrong way when he chose to play college soccer at Stanford rather than turn pro right away. Despite that choice, he became the first college player in about two decades to be called into the senior national team. After three seasons at Stanford, he took even more criticism for electing to sign with the Seattle Sounders as a Homegrown Player rather than make a move overseas, where he had generated a fair amount of interest and had even gone on trial with Bundesliga club Werder Bremen.