Christian Pulisic Is Winning Over Skeptical Brits
The Lead
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🗓️ 22 November 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Christian Pulisic has scored five goals in his past three Premier League games for Chelsea, including a hat trick last month against Burnley. There has been a lot of buzz around Pulisic since he became Chelsea’s third most expensive signing in January, and questions about how good the 21-year-old American really is. The Athletic's Liam Twomey joins us to explain how Pulisic is now turning some skeptical Brits into believers.
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| 0:00.0 | So it was a rocky first few weeks, but America's greatest men's soccer player is now Red |
| 0:12.4 | Hot. |
| 0:13.4 | Christian Polisik has scored five goals in his past three primarily games for Chelsea, including |
| 0:27.2 | a hat trick last month. |
| 0:29.0 | And let's remember, he's still just 21 years old. |
| 0:32.6 | There's been a lot of buzz around Polisik since he became Chelsea's third most expensive |
| 0:36.6 | signing in history back in January, and questions about how good this young American really |
| 0:42.5 | is. |
| 0:43.5 | But now, Polisik is turning some skeptical brits into believers. |
| 0:48.4 | And posing the question, can he become the best player in the Premier League? |
| 0:54.2 | No, him, yeah. |
| 0:57.2 | People of that and more today, with Liam Tumi, who covers Chelsea for the athletic. |
| 1:02.2 | From Wondery and the Athletic, I'm Anders Keltow. |
| 1:04.6 | And I'm Kavitha Davidson. |
| 1:06.1 | It's Friday, November 22nd, and this is The Lead. |
| 1:09.6 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:13.8 | There was just something about the emotion and the moment the men go fast for personal. |
| 1:18.6 | The failures of the past don't matter because we've got this now. |
| 1:21.8 | You can't fail, you can't fail. |
| 1:24.8 | This isn't a story where you interview the athlete in the home. |
| 1:29.0 | It stays with you. |
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