In world football, the United States and Asia will generally be considered a desert-like existence of football, and the United States will be regarded as a place for European players to retire. Of course, Asian teams, especially East Asian teams, do not even have the qualifications to let many players "retire", which seems to be more miserable.
Leaving aside Asian football, let's talk about American football alone. As we all know, in the United States, whether it is ice hockey, football or basketball, it is much more popular than football. However, American football has also appeared more representative figures, such as the past decade, these three people can basically represent the entire United States football.
The first one, no doubt, will be the representative of American football, Langden Donovan. Although he has retired, he has left a record that no American player has been able to do so far.
Donovan, who spent most of his career in major league soccer, also briefly wandered in European football, and joined a giant club like Bayern Munich, although he did not play particularly well, but also broke the history of American football. Later in his career, he also played for Everton in the Premier League, where he still didn't play long, but still scored goals.
Compared with European football, Donovan is definitely a hegemonic player in the Us major leagues, winning the league championship with the Los Angeles Galaxy many times in his career and being named the American Footballer of the Year. In the U.S. national team, Donovan also has an excellent performance, not only helping the team to reach the World Cup many times, but also the absolute core of the team.
The second player is more distinctive, she is a female footballer, Megan Rapino. Meghan, known as "Captain America", won the Women's Ballon d'Or in the past Ballon d'Or awards. This was mainly due to her excellent performance in the Women's World Cup, leading the team to the championship.
Meghan's position in the women's soccer team can be said to be a king-like existence, and almost all of her honors in her brilliant career have been won with the American team. Of course, women's football does not have a particularly good league. She is unruly, she is handsome, she stands at the top of women's football, as long as she is still in the United States team for a day, the American women's football team is the super team in the world football world.
The last and most talked about player is 21-year-old Pulisic from Chelsea. Pulisic, who has American citizenship, is actually a Croat, but he chose to play for the U.S. national team, more on the copa America.
Since 2016, Pulisic has attracted the attention of many big teams, especially after becoming a candidate for the Golden Boy Award in 2017. Joining Chelsea from Borussia Dortmund last year, he was originally bought by the team to replace Eden Hazard, who left, and this season has played a brilliant role, blowing up a "blue youth storm" with his teammates in the league.
Of course, it's too early to say that Pulisic will become a legend on the U.S. team or a benchmark for American players. But it cannot be denied that the young player is currently the most concerned American in world football, and he is still improving. Once Pulisic can lead the United States to a brilliant performance at the World Cup or next year's Copa America, surpassing Donovan, it will be almost no problem.
American soccer is unfortunate, their men's soccer, no glorious history, no honor to take, but U.S. soccer is lucky, at least they still have hopes like Pulisic and super kings like in women's soccer.