{"id":74265,"date":"2026-05-31T21:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/christian-pulisic-wanted-to-talk-about-something-else-now-he-can\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T21:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:55:31","slug":"christian-pulisic-wanted-to-talk-about-something-else-now-he-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/christian-pulisic-wanted-to-talk-about-something-else-now-he-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Pulisic wanted to talk about something else. Now he can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US forward\u2019s imperious 45 minutes against Senegal put some questions to rest, while his manager still wants to see more<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/31\/sign-up-for-the-world-behind-the-cup-a-newsletter-about-more-than-soccer\"><strong>Sign up for the World Behind The Cup newsletter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t hard to see how annoyed US men\u2019s national team star Christian Pulisic was getting. Another US national team camp, another friendly on the road to an all-important World Cup at home, and another batch of questions about his goal scoring drought, and the pressure it created for him and the team.<\/p>\n<p>Before Sunday, the Milan midfielder hadn\u2019t scored a goal for club or country in nearly six months. His dry spell just with the national team stretched back even further, with Pulisic having last found the back of the net on 19 November 2024, during a Nations League match against Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/may\/31\/christian-pulisic-usmnt-senegal-world-cup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US forward\u2019s imperious 45 minutes against Senegal put some questions to rest, while his manager still wants to see more Sign up for the World Behind The Cup newsletter It wasn\u2019t hard to see how annoyed US men\u2019s national team star Christian Pulisic was getting. Another US national team camp, another friendly on the &#8230; <a title=\"Christian Pulisic wanted to talk about something else. Now he can\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/christian-pulisic-wanted-to-talk-about-something-else-now-he-can\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Christian Pulisic wanted to talk about something else. Now he can\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}