Meet Wisconsin-born Esmir Bajraktarević, the man who could bring down the US | USA

Esmir Bajraktarević’s uture offered two options with little overlap.

Born and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin, a Midwestern river town where Harry Houdini also came of age, Bajraktarević’s development took him from the nearby Chicago Fire’s academy to the New England Revolution. He began representing the United States at youth levels, first the U-19s and then the U-23s. He was included in…