In an opening match against Wales, the Americans showed some thrilling flashes of their potential—but they couldn’t find the genius-level pass to clinch the win.
. The team’s sole appearance had been in 1950, and, despite occasional flickers of imported-superstar-driven interest in the seventies, Americans showed little interest in the sport in the late eighties. As the men’s team worked its way through the qualifying rounds, players were getting by on twenty-dollar per diems, training at their nearest high schools, and stealing extra Adidas-branded gear as keepsakes.
Throughout their opening match against Wales, the Americans showed some of those thrilling flashes: Antonee Robinson’s surging runs up the left, the winger Timothy Weah’s crosses from the right, Tyler Adams’s tireless and preternatural breakup play in midfield. Wales, playing in its first World Cup since 1958, was stodgy and disciplined, happy to concede possession and defend.
In the thirty-sixth minute, a Welsh attack broke down, leaving the defense in disarray. The American striker Josh Sargent—a surprise inclusion by Berhalter, given that Sargent hasn’t scored for the national team since 2019—held up the ball, and quickly shifted it to a surging Pulisic, who found Weah sprinting diagonally across the box. Weah—the Brooklyn-born son of the great Liberian striker George Weah—coolly poked it in with the outside of his foot.
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