Christian Polisic’s decision to sit outside the USMnt games

When Christian Polisic, captain of the national football team, announced last spring that he would choose comfort in representing his country in the Concacaf Gold – the last major championship before the World Cup next summer – was a fierce and personal reaction often.

He played 3,650 minutes in MILAN last season and appeared in 118 club and country games in the previous 22 months. He said he needs a break for rest and body.

However, the decision to take this break was subjected to selfish, selfish, and betrayal.

“Do not want to play in the gold Cup, it bothering me,” said Landon Donovan, the leader of the national team in all ages in aid and the leader participating in the goals.

“I cannot understand the refusal of my municipal representation concession,” added Alexei Lallas, former national defender of the National Defender.

Four months later, Polisic seems to make the right decision. Seven weeks after the new season, the stable and reactivated Polisic leads to Italy in Italy with four goals to go with two passes. He scored six times in all competition, which is the best start for a season in his 11 -year career.

This is good for the United States, eight months of the World Cup, which will host it. The performance may also calm a lot of criticism.

“He plays and plays under great pressure,” Moresio Pochettino, coach of USMnt, said in a phone call last week. “He needs to perform every week and every game in a place like Milan.”

“Christian is a great player,” he added. “I think we can say he is the most important player for the national team.”

In fact, you could have said that a long time ago since the Polisic players led the active national team players in appearances (80), goals (32) and help (19). If registration continues at this pace, both Donovan and Celint Dempsey will pass to become a leading top scorer in the history of the United States.

At the age of twenty -seven, he was in the middle of the road to the 164 -games cup.

So, while his commitment to the national team was interrogated last summer, he paid his dues – sometimes blood and bruising. In the last World Cup, for example, Polisic ended in the hospital after scoring a brave goal in the first half against Iran, which sent the United States to the stage of the defeated.

But it was clear that something had stopped last spring when he played badly in the hidden nations league losses in Canada and Panama. It turns out the pressure of an attempt to carry the national team and One of the largest clubs in Italy through the impossible essential player’s crisis is impossible to let him run on fumes. Therefore, after consulting with technical, medical and high employees in the United States of Football, he chose comfort and recovery during the last summer before the World Cup.

Although this angered critics – it seems to bother Poittino as well – it is difficult to argue with the results.

Although Polisic was lost during the Gold Cup, his absence gave other players an opportunity to shine – and the United States issued the final without it. Then in the friendly matches of the team in September, Polisic that was revived and renewed was great, especially in a 2-0 victory over Japan, in which Poittino turned into a 3-4-3 composition.

Pochittino may be the national team coach, but there is no doubt that Polisic is its leader. Therefore, it will need to be repeated these September offers in friendly matches for this month with the World Cup qualifiers (Friday) and Australia (October 14) to maintain Americans’ preparations for the next summer on the right track.

“This player who performs him is a really important player for us. We cannot hide and we cannot lie,” Pochettino said. “He needs to maintain this level. It’s the most important thing now.”

Policic had the courage to do what was appropriate for himself last summer, just as Donovan did when he took a strongly deviant of football in 2013. This cost Donovan the captain’s badge with the galaxy and his place in Jurgen Klensman.

However, he scored eight goals and got eight passes in 10 games with the national team when he returned in 2013 and set their professional levels of aid (14) and minutes that played (2,716) in MLS the following year.

It is clear that the rest did it well. It is clear that she did the same for Pulisic.

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