NY Times · Mar 28, 2022
U.S. Thrashes Panama and Pencils Itself Into the World Cup
Christian Pulisic led the way with three goals, but the Americans still must go to Costa Rica to guarantee their place in Qatar.
Christian Pulisic scored a hat trick against Panama.Credit...Chandan Khanna/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesThe United States men’s soccer team is not in the World Cup, not just yet. There is still one last trip to make, one last job to do, one last game to play.
It would be hard, though, for a team to keep the Americans from going to Qatar now. And it would be nearly impossible to persuade them, or anyone else, that — at last — they do not belong back on soccer’s brightest stage.