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With no Pulisic and good results, have the USMNT moved on from their savior complex? | Leander Schaerlaeckens

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The US have been defined for so long by the next singular player. This past perfect window shows that era may be over 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. As Gansler recalled later: “I was thinking not only for ’90, but I was thinking about the 90s.”

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