Milan, Pulisic, the background of Captain America playing in a basement

Steve Klein, one of Christian’s first coaches at the Academy PA Classics in Pennsylvania, told us how Christian became the best soccer talent in the USA

Christian Pulisic also grew up with a sort of ball-shooting “dragon” hoisted menacingly in front of him, but unlike André Agassi – sad and grumpy with a racket in his hand, forced by his father to send three hundred balls back across the net per day – the golden boy American faced the test with enthusiastic eyes. He would stand in front of his father in the basement and kick. One, two, ten, twenty times.

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