With no Pulisic and good results, have the USMNT moved on from their savior complex? | USA
By: Leander Schaerlaeckens | Published: 2026-10-08 15:45:19 | Source: www.theguardian.com
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.
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As Gansler recalled later: “I was thinking not only for ’90, but I was thinking about the 90s.”
In 1998, Steve…
