The United States team is looking for the ticket to Tokyo 2020, in the Concacaf Pre-Olympic, same in which they are already in the semifinals and one of the eligible players for the stars and stripes squad in case of obtaining your ticket to the Olympics, is Christian Pulisic, who this Thursday expressed his desire to be in the Olympic tournament, although he knows that this is not in his hands.
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During a press conference prior to the USMNT matches against Jamaica and Northern Ireland on this FIFA Date, the Chelsea footballer said he would like to be called up to the Olympic team, in case they get his ticket in the tournament that takes place in Mexico and that would mark the return of the United States to the Olympic Games, for the first time since Beijing 2008.
“The Olympic Games are, of course, a great honor to play and Representing your country in the Olympics would be amazing. I am fully supporting the guys in qualifying now. It’s something I’ve thought about and wanted to play with. Obviously I can’t control what happens and what is best for me and for the team at the time, I can’t say. But it’s something i’d like to play”, He commented.
Chelsea footballer, born in 1998, is one of the eligible players for the United States in the Tokyo Olympic Games men’s soccer tournament, which will admit players born after 1997, although some factors could avoid the call of the American reference in the Olympic selection.
In the event that Pulisic is included in the roster of the United States Olympic team, Chelsea would not be obliged to give up the 22-year-old, since the Olympic Games are not taken into account as an official competition for FIFA, otherwise the Gold Cup, which in this edition will be linked to the Olympic fair and therefore Pulisic is expected to be one of the mainstays in the senior team, within the Concacaf tournament.
The selection with which the USA would aspire to the Gold
Pulisic would be one of the figures with whom the United States could fight for gold in the next Olympic Games, since among the eligible footballers are some of his jewels that are currently in Europe, such as Sergiño Dest, Chris Richards, Tyler Adams, Weston McKennie, Giovanni Reyna o Josh Sargent, although this is expected to be the basis for the next Gold Cup.
Gregg Berhalter himself spoke about Christian Pulisic’s interest in being in the next Olympics and assured that Although he would like to see the United States with a full team in Tokyo, it looks complicated by the international calendar, in which the Gold Cup will be the main priority of the stars and stripes squad.
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