Forget the Balon d'OR! It hit my this week that CP will be a super star inside the US sooner than later. I walked into our lounge at work this week and two coworkers were plopped on a couch watching BVB's champions league clash. I sarcastically asked what are you guys doing not thinking they really knew CP.. Almost simultaneously they answered Pulisic! They both told me they had to come upstairs to check him out. This was coming from two casual soccer fans at best. Then it hit me.........this kid is going to be a superstar. He is going to be what we thought Landon Donovan was destined to be. That is not a knock against Donovan. CP Will be a global superstar
Pulisic has been effective on the right this year, but I think he's far more comfortable on the left as today showed. It's odd, his crossing with his off left foot seems to be more accurate than his right.
A lot of posters who frequently watch Dortmund notice that Dembele never seems to pass to CP, gets in his way, doesn't play well with him, etc. So likely no, it's just circumstantial evidence and fans' frustration that became a little joke.
On a different day, CP has 3 assists and a goal. Anyone know who announced this match? Didn't recognize the voice.
It sounded like Derek Rae given his ambivalence about how to pronounce CP's name -- vacillating between the Euro "Poolisich" and the actual "Poolisic". However, I think Derek is still over on ESPN.
It was Rae Broadcasting #BMGBVB on Saturday in the #Topspiel slot for #Bundesliga world feed. Kevin McKenna joining me in the commentary box.— Derek Rae (@RaeComm) April 21, 2017
Derek was one of the first commentators for the Revs in the early MLS days. He was very good but knew enough about football to know he couldn't watch MLS 1.0 every week. He barely had an accent on his broadcasts. When he started broadcasting Euro matches it took a while to believe it was the same guy his brogue was so thick.
Unfortunately, correlation is not causation. Dembele only seems to like to pass to Auba. He ignores everyone else, not just Christian. Could be he just thinks Auba is a proven goalscorer so he's willing to pass to someone who he believes can finish.
And in contrast, my local news, in reporting the bomb blast didn't mention that there was an American on the team, and just yesterday on CNBC, they talked about the financial put option aspect of the bombing, with again, no mention that there was an American on the team. I mean if any other top American athlete from baseball, basketball or football had been on the bus, you know they'd have mentioned it. So, we've still got a ways to go before CP is a household name.
The conspirators would have plenty of data to back that up, however; I am not a believer that's the whole truth. What I see are a few things, that might inspires people to think that way. (1) Dembele, right now, is playing pretty selfishly. Maybe with time, that will improve. He continuously kept dribbling into a wall of 3/4 defenders instead of making a pass or cross. (2) Dembeles loves to run with his head down; again, with experience and coaching, this should also improve. You see many times that a simple pass or layoff would open other attacking opportunities. (3) He's always looking for the veterans. Hopefully, with more games under his belt and some fine coaching, he'll learn to make the more intelligent and effective passes to players that are in a better position to either finish or produce that final pass/cross instead of always looking for the veteran strikers with a final pass.