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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
By Avi Creditor With a berth in Qatar on the line and key players out injured or otherwise limited, the spotlight is on an in-form Christian Pulisic to deliver for the U.S. View the original article to see embedded media. No U.S. men’s national team fan needs the reminder—especially not this week—but sometimes to get to where you want to go, you need to look back at where you’ve come from. For Christian Pulisic, the images of his face buried in his shirt upon the devastation of the U.S.’s failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup were brutal then and remain so now. Here was a 19-year-old playi…