COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) Christian Pulisic has been given plenty of responsibility as an 18-year-old on the U.S. national team.
Bring up his age, though, and the central midfielder turns a little defensive.
”Everyone asks me questions about my age,” Pulisic said Wednesday, a day before World Cup qualifying resumes against Trinidad and Tobago. ”It doesn’t matter anymore. We’re all at the same level.”
Sometimes, his coaches and teammates forget that he is indeed only 18. He doesn’t play like a typical teenager. The talented Borussia Dortmund phenom already is the youngest American to win a medal with a European club.