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With no Pulisic and good results, have the USMNT moved on from their savior complex? | Leander Schaerlaeckens
The US have been defined for so long by the next singular player. This past perfect window shows that era may be over
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In 1990, then-United States men’s national team manager Bob Gansler made a critical and somewhat controversial choice. He left three of the program’s laureled veterans at home and brought a young and little-tested team to the World Cup in Italy, the USA’s first in 40 years.
As Gansler recalled later: “I was thinking not only for ’90, but I was thinking about the 90s.”
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Leander Schaerlaeckens · Thu, Oct 8, 2026, 8:45 AM
US news | The Guardian
The US have been defined for so long by the next singular player. This past perfect window shows that era may be over
In 1990, then-United States men’s national team manager Bob Gansler made a critical and somewhat controversial choice. He left three of the program’s laureled veterans at home and brought a young and little-tested team to the World Cup in Italy, the USA’s first in 40 years.
As Gansler recalled later: “I was thinking not only for ’90, but I was thinking about the 90s.”
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