Incomprehensible words bombarded Christian Pulisic day after day of the toughest year of his life. He'd sit in German public school classrooms surrounded by kids he didn't know, learning math in a language he couldn't understand. And at times, a few years removed from stardom, and a few thousand miles from home, he would wonder: What am I doing here?
. And several credit Pulisic with inspiring and enabling their burgeoning careers. They call him a"trailblazer" and a"living legend." Pulisic points out that he was not the first Yank to trek across the pond; that Clint Dempsey and others were pioneers before he was. But no American had ever made the leap, and achieved so much, at such a young age.“It was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in my life,” Pulisic wrote in a recent book on his journey.
He returned to central Pennsylvania at age 10 and began his ascent in earnest. He traveled the country to youth national team camps, and enrolled in U.S. Soccer's Under-17 residency program. Every sizable step stimulated nerves, but talent invariably quelled them. On Dec. 13, 2013, he lined up opposite mighty Brazil at a U17 tournament in Florida.
He battled, day after day at Dortmund, for respect, trust and improvement. “I was going through everything — school, German lessons” too, he noted in his book. “And then I almost felt like there was no point to it all because I couldn’t even play on the weekends.” So doubts simmered. “There were dark days,” Mark admits.
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