It might turn out to be the hottest of hot-button topics around the program.
After more than half a decade of ‘golden generation’ talk around the core group headlined by Christian Pulisic, Weston McKennie and Gio Reyna, that exciting crop of future prospects are now unquestionably the present. Many of them have reached massive European clubs, some with huge transfer fees and valuations attached. They’ve now been together on the national team for a full cycle and then some. The long-awaited, much-anticipated home World Cup is just two years away.
It’s time to translate all that potential into top-tier end product, not only with technical virtuosity, but with a ferocity and commitment to match that of their less-gifted USMNT forbears.
“At the end of the day, every single player on our team, myself included, needs to be ready to perform at a certain level, certain intensity,” said goalkeeper Matt Turner after the Colombia humbling. “And we didn’t have that today and that’s the disappointing part for us. And I imagine for the fans as well.”
