{"id":398066,"date":"2022-12-01T22:39:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T22:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=398066"},"modified":"2022-12-02T05:43:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T05:43:25","slug":"bolstered-by-his-teammates-christian-pulisic-has-grown-into-his-role-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/bolstered-by-his-teammates-christian-pulisic-has-grown-into-his-role-opinion","title":{"rendered":"Bolstered by his teammates, Christian Pulisic has grown into his role | Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOHA, Qatar &#8212;&nbsp;So much has been heaped on Christian Pulisic&#8217;s shoulders since he was barely a teenager. More than just a generational American talent, he&#8217;s got the kind of physical gifts even Europeans recognize and admire, and he offered the promise the USMNT could one day be counted among the world&#8217;s elite. Maybe even World Cup champions. That&#8217;s a lot to put on anyone, let alone someone so young, and it sometimes seemed to be all too much. With his every move&nbsp;analyzed and dissected, Pulisic became aloof, even wary. Only occasionally did the fa&#231;ade crack; after the U.S. men failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, Pulisic sobbed on the field in Trinidad and Tobago, devastated the dream he&#8217;d had since he was 5 had slipped away. At this World Cup, however, Pulisic seems unburdened. No longer prickly, he is even engaging on occasion. Watch the clip of him waiting in the lobby for his teammates following the 1-0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Pulisic is day-to-day with a pelvic contusion but said he will do &#8220;everything in my power&#8221; to play round of 16 game against the Netherlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[417,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champions-league","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}