Doug McIntyre
Football journalist
Christian Pulisic, the face of the American national male team and the top scorer in AC Milan this season, will not be included on the alignment of the USMNT when the head coach Mauricio Pochet Pocsettino appoints his team of 26 players for the Gold Cup this summer, Tell Sports.
Pulisic, who will establish a new career summit for the minutes played if he records more than 49 years on Saturday against Monza in the last match of the Italian club of Serie A campaign, was physically beaten following two European seasons of consecutive marathon and international matches. He will not participate in the biennial regional championship accordingly, according to sources, adding that the decision was also taken with his health in the spirit of the very important FIFA World Cup.
The 16 -team Golden Cup starts on June 14 in 12 American cities plus Vancouver, Canada. Last month, the USMNT was trained in a group with Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti and the Saudi nation in Arabia. American football is expected to announce its list of Gold Cup on Thursday morning. Pochettino will take questions from journalists later during the day.
The absence of Pulisic still weakens the USMNT, which will also be without the services of the striker of Borussia Dortmund Gio Reyna and the teammates of Juventus Weston McKennie and Tim Weah this summer. The three veterans represented the United States at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Dortmund and Juve are both involved in the Extended FIFA Club World Cup, which takes place in the United States at the same time as the Gold Cup. The Director of Global Soccer judged last year that the participants in the Club World Cup do not have to release players for international service in June and July as usual.
Pochettino deplored the time conflict on Tuesday during a conference on the zoom.
“This is a situation that forces a team like the United States,” said former Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea manager, “to manage without players who would normally be with us.”
Pulisic scored 17 goals and added 12 assists for the Rosseri In all competitions so far this season. Both are already career summits. If the 26-year-old Pennsylvania native takes the ground against Monza, it would be his 50th match of 2024-25, equaling the total quarry in career a year ago.
The 2025-26 European campaign is extremely important for Pulisic and the rest of the contingent abroad of the USMNT because the end of the buttocks directly against the 2026 World Cup, which will be co-organized by the United States with the North American neighbors of Canada and Mexico.
Pulisic has no objective in two international appearances this year. The United States has won seven of the 17 previous golden cuts, second of all time against the nine of Mexico. The most recent title of the Americans came in 2021. Pulisic played in the 2019 edition, his only Gold Cup experience to date. He was appointed the best young player of this event after helping the USMNT reach the final, where they narrowly lost against El Sort.
Doug McIntyre is a football journalist for Fox Sports who covered UNITED STATES The national and female teams of FIFA World Cups on five continents. Follow it @Bydougmcintyre.
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