Christian Pulisic

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Christian Pulisic
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Christian Pulisic (2019)
Personnel
Surname Christian Mate Pulisic
birthday September 18, 1998
place of birth Hershey ,  Pennsylvania , USA
size 172 cm
position attacking midfield
Juniors
Years station
2005-2006 Brackley Town
2008-2014 Pennsylvania Classics
2015-2016 Borussia Dortmund
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2016-2019 Borussia Dortmund 90 (13)
2019– Chelsea FC 25 0(9)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2012-2013 USA U15 10 0(2)
2013-2015 USA U17 34 (20)
2016– United States 34 (14)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of October 16, 2019

Christian Mate Pulisic ([ ˈkɹɪstʃən ˈpulisɪk ]; Croatian Christian Pulišić ; born September 18, 1998 in Hershey , Pennsylvania ) is an American football player . He is under contract with Chelsea . In addition, Pulisic, who also has Croatian citizenship, is an American national player . He is mostly used in attacking midfield or as a winger .

Life

Pulisic's paternal grandfather is Croatian . His father, Mark Pulisic, was also a soccer player and played for the Harrisburg Heat indoor soccer team in the National Professional Soccer League in the 1990s . Since the transfer of an underage player from outside the European Union or the European Economic Area is not permitted and is only possible from the age of 16 within this area, Pulisic accepted Croatian citizenship in addition to his US citizenship before moving to Borussia Dortmund . His cousin Will (* 1998) is also a soccer player and plays in the position of goalkeeper . Together they took part in the 2015 World Cup in Chile with the US U17 team. During his early days as a youth at BVB, his father Mark, who had accompanied 16-year-old Christian to Germany, coached the club's U10 juniors for two years.

Career

societies

youth

Pulisic, whose parents were both professional athletes and later coaches , began his career with the Pennsylvania Classics , a youth football organization based in East Petersburg , Pennsylvania . Before that, he played for a year in England in the youth of the lower-class football club Brackley Town , because his mother was working there at the time.

From early childhood his parents nurtured Pulisic's enthusiasm for football. At the Harrisburg City Islanders he already trained with the professionals. Bill Becher, coach at the time, described Pulisic as adaptable and confident without exuding arrogance.

In July 2014, at the age of 15, he and his father moved to Germany to switch to Borussia Dortmund's youth training center . In February 2015, at the age of 16, he officially moved to BVB. In the meantime he had already taken part in training and was used in friendly matches. At BVB, he first played in the B-Jugend (U17), with whom he became German champions in the 2014/15 season , scoring six goals in eight league games.

In the 2015/16 season he was used in the A youth team (U19). At the end of the season, the team won the German A-Junior Championship of 2016. In the semi-final against TSV 1860 Munich , he scored a goal in the second leg and thus contributed to the final. In the final itself, he was not there because of his participation in the Copa America with the US national team . He played a total of 14 games in all competitions for the A-youth and scored 7 goals.

Borussia Dortmund

Christian Pulisic at Borussia Dortmund (2017)

For the second half of the 2015/16 season, the midfielder moved up to the professional squad together with Felix Passlack under the new coach Thomas Tuchel . On January 30, 2016, he made his debut in the Bundesliga at the age of 17 years and 134 days when he came on as a 68th minute substitute for Adrián Ramos in a 2-0 home win against FC Ingolstadt 04 on matchday 19 . His commitment made him the eighth-youngest player in the Bundesliga. He scored his first Bundesliga goal on April 17, 2016 (30th matchday) in a 3-0 win at home against Hamburger SV with the goal to make it 1-0 in the 38th minute. This made him the youngest foreign and overall fourth youngest shooter in the Bundesliga. With his second Bundesliga goal to 2-0 in the 3-0 win against VfB Stuttgart on matchday 31, Pulisic became the youngest Bundesliga shooter to date with two goals. In total, he scored two goals in nine Bundesliga appearances during the season. He was also used in the A-youth , with which he became German champion for the second time .

In the 2016/17 season Pulisic made 29 league appearances and scored three of the Westphalia’s 72 goals. In the 6-0 away win at Legia Warsaw in the group stage of the Champions League , he was in the starting line-up and thus for the first time in a European competition. After winning the group before runner-up Real Madrid , however, he was eliminated in the quarter-finals with the team. In May 2017, he won his first professional title when he won the DFB Cup final with Borussia 2-1 against Eintracht Frankfurt . In the 2017/18 season he finally developed into a regular player. He made 32 league appearances under coaches Peter Bosz and Peter Stöger , 27 of them in the starting line-up, in which he was able to prepare six goals. In this mixed season, at the end of which head coach Stöger had to go, Pulisic could not win a title with the BVB professionals.

In the first half of the 2018/19 season , Pulisic was not part of the regular formation under new coach Lucien Favre , after Jadon Sancho ousted him on the right wing and Jacob Bruun Larsen was mostly used on the left wing . In the first half of the season he played all games in the Champions League and the Cup, but only made 11 appearances in the league, including 5 in the starting line-up. Rumors of change were circulating in the media, and Pulisic himself also publicly expressed his wish to "play in the Premier League ". At the beginning of January 2019 , one and a half years before his contract expired, FC Chelsea acquired the transfer rights to Pulisic for 64 million euros, who remained in the Borussia Dortmund squad on loan until the end of the season. By the end of the season he came on 9 more league appearances (4 times in the starting line-up), in which he scored 3 goals.

Chelsea FC

Pulisic in Chelsea jersey alongside Leicester City's Jamie Vardy (2019)

For the 2019/20 season, Pulisic moved to the English Premier League for Chelsea , who had already acquired his transfer rights in January 2019 for 64 million euros and loaned him to Borussia Dortmund until the end of the season. He became the second most expensive exit in BVB history, one of the most expensive transfers in the Bundesliga and the most expensive US player , behind Ousmane Dembélé , who moved to FC Barcelona in August 2017 for 105 million euros . The reason for this transfer model was that at this point in time, Chelsea FC was threatened with a transfer ban from the 2019 summer transfer period due to illegal transfers of underage players, which, however, did not include loan players who were already signed and was also issued by FIFA at the end of February 2019 . Borussia Dortmund, on the other hand, did not want to give up Pulisic during the current season - despite his role as a supplementary player in the first half of the 2018/19 season.

On matchday 10 Pulisic scored 3 goals in a 4-2 away win at Burnley FC . On the 11th and 12th match day he subsequently met once each. In total, the American came in his first Premier League season under head coach Frank Lampard on 25 missions (19 times from the start), in which he scored 9 goals. There were also 2 appearances in the EFL Cup and FA Cup . In the FA Cup final Pulisic scored the opening goal against Arsenal , but the game was still lost 2-1.

National team

Pulisic in a duel with Trinidad and Tobago's Daneil Cyrus at the Gold Cup 2019

Pulisic played for the United States U15 squad from 2012 to 2013 . In this he came to ten missions and scored two goals. From 2013 he was used in the U17 selection , with which he took part in the 2015 U17 World Cup in Chile . There, however, the team retired as the bottom of the group. At the Nike International Friendlies in winter 2013 he made a big impression for the first time and at the subsequent Mercedes Benz Aegean Cup he led the US U17 national team to the title. At the time he was noticed by his technique, his overview, his agility and his explosiveness. For the U17 national team, he played 34 international matches in which he scored 20 goals.

On March 27, 2016, he was nominated for the first time for the senior national team and made his debut on March 29, 2016 in the World Cup qualifier against the selection of Guatemala , when he came on for Graham Zusi in the 81st minute . On May 28, 2016, he scored his first international goal for the USA in his third international match.

National coach Jürgen Klinsmann nominated Pulisic for the US squad for the Copa América Centenario 2016 . In the first group game against the Colombia selection , he was substituted on; the United States lost the game 2-0. In the further course of the tournament he was only used again in the semi-finals against Argentina when he was substituted on in the second half. The game was lost 4-0. In his eighth international match, he was in the US starting XI for the first time and, at 17 years, six months and 13 days, was the youngest US player to date in his starting XI debut.

On December 14, 2017, Pulisic was named Footballer of the Year in the USA .

In a friendly against Italy on November 20, 2018, at the age of 20 years, two months and two days, he led his team to the field as the youngest captain in the history of the US association.

successes

Club soccer

Personal awards

Web links

Commons : Christian Pulisic  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FIFA U-17 World Cup Chile 2015 List of Players on fifadata.com, accessed on September 17, 2016 (English)
  2. ↑ See an article by 24 sata (Croatian).
  3. ↑ a b Eurosport.de : EuroScout: Passlack and Pulisic - the black and yellow future , January 30, 2016, accessed on January 30, 2016.
  4. ↑ Another Pulisic headed to Borussia Dortmund ( English ) SoccerAmerica. March 22, 2016. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
  5. ↑ See Article 19 of the "Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players", PDF ( Memento of October 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (430 kB)
  6. ↑ a b fifa.com : Welcome to the Pulisics , October 23, 2015, accessed January 30, 2016.
  7. ↑ a b Christian Pulisic: the making of a young man ready to step up , theguardian.com, accessed on January 2, 2019 (English)
  8. ↑ a b c d David Theis: More than just the first hype. In: spox.com. Perform Media Deutschland GmbH, March 10, 2016, accessed on March 19, 2016 .
  9. ↑ a b USSF : U-17 MNT's Christian Pulisic Living His Soccer Dream , March 14, 2014, accessed January 31, 2016.
  10. ↑ kicker online : Klopp: "Pulisic can kick properly" , February 12, 2015, accessed on January 31, 2016.
  11. ↑ kicker online: The next step for Passlack and Pulisic , January 5, 2016, accessed on January 30, 2016.
  12. ↑ kicker online: Aubameyang secures victory late , January 30, 2016, accessed on June 30, 2016.
  13. ↑ kicker online: Milestone for Pulisic , January 31, 2016, accessed on February 1, 2016.
  14. ↑ kicker online: Youngest Bundesliga scorers: Pulisic is there , April 17, 2016, accessed on April 17, 2016
  15. ↑ Match report Legia Warsaw - Borussia Dortmund , transfermarkt.de, accessed on January 2, 2019
  16. ↑ a b Pulisic is moving to Chelsea FC this summer , bvb.de, January 2, 2019, accessed on January 2, 2019.
  17. ↑ This transfer has only winners , kicker.de, January 2, 2019, accessed on January 2, 2019.
  18. ↑ Dembelé before De Bruyne: Bundesliga record transfers , kicker.de, accessed on January 2, 2019.
  19. ↑ Transfer ban until summer 2020: Chelsea defends itself , kicker.de, February 22, 2019, accessed on February 22, 2019.
  20. ↑ This transfer has only winners , kicker.de, January 2, 2019, accessed on January 2, 2019.
  21. ↑ Pulisic is Dortmund's next transfer coup , sueddeutsche.de, January 2, 2019, accessed on January 2, 2019.
  22. ↑ BVB striker Pulisic for 64 million euros for Chelsea FC , waz.de, January 2, 2019, accessed on January 2, 2019.
  23. ↑ USSF : US Under-15 Boys 2013: Schedule & Results. Archived from the original on January 6, 2014 ; accessed on January 31, 2016 .
  24. ↑ See his profile ( January 30, 2016 memento in the Internet Archive ) on the US Football Association's website
  25. ↑ USSF : U-17 Men's National Team: Stats. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015 ; accessed on January 31, 2016 .
  26. ↑ Spox.com : Johnson leaves injured: Klinsmann calls Pulisic , March 27, 2016, accessed April 17, 2016
  27. ↑ USSF : USA Scores Big 4-0 World Cup Qualifying Win Against Guatemala In Columbus. March 29, 2016, accessed June 4, 2016 .
  28. ↑ USA - Colombia 0-2 (Copa América 2016 USA, Group A). In: weltfussball.de. Retrieved June 4, 2016 .
  29. ↑ USA - Argentina 0: 4 (Copa America 2016 in the USA, semifinals). In: transfermarkt.de. Retrieved June 22, 2016 .
  30. ↑ bundesliga.com : Pulisic makes history as USA beat Guatemala. March 30, 2016, accessed June 4, 2016 .
  31. ↑ "Captain America": Pulisic is making history again , kicker.de, accessed on November 21, 2018
predecessor Office successor
Jozy Altidore Footballer of the Year in the USA
2017 		Zack Steffen
personal data
SURNAME Pulisic, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pulišić, Christian (Croatian); Pulisic, Christian Mate (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Hershey , Pennsylvania , United States