The Future is Now: Christian Pulisic is America's First Global Soccer Star

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🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The soccer world was stunned last year when the English Premier League powerhouse Chelsea FC forked over 73 million dollars for 20-year old American Christian Pulisic. It was a record amount of money paid for an American...and immediately made the Hershey, PA native the most visible American ever on the soccer stage. And while Pulisic has shown unparalleled potential at every step of his career thus far, since the EPL's post-quarantine restart, he seems to have fully hit his stride, earning three goals and a beautiful assist in 7 matches. ESPN's Sam Borden explains why Pulisic's signing with Chelsea was so unique, and how his talent combined with soccer's global reach could one day make him the biggest American sports star worldwide. Then, Bill Barnwell discusses how the deadline for Dak Prescott to sign a contract extension with the Dallas Cowboys came and went...without a new deal for Dak. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, the head. It comes in. Goodness me, he's done it again. Christian Polisic has a hat trick.
0:06.7	Would you believe it? What a moment for the man from Pennsylvania.
0:15.8	For the past four years, Christian Polisic has been widely hailed as the future of American soccer.
0:22.6	So when the Storyed English club Chelsea shelled out $73 million to acquire him last year,
0:28.6	it had many wondering if the future had finally arrived.
0:32.6	Today, we look at the impact Polistic is already making on the English Premier League
0:37.9	and whether it will or won't translate
0:41.2	to World Cup success for America.
0:44.3	I mean, it comes.
0:45.8	It's Thursday, July 16th.
0:48.2	This is ESPN Daily.
1:03.1	Sam, for, you know, American soccer fans who might be new to the phenomena that we'll be discussing today, how do you say his name? Give us a guidance.
1:06.7	The best guidance that I got was that it's Polic.
1:11.2	Sam Borden is a senior writer for ESPN.
1:13.7	He interviewed Christian Polisic last year for E60.
1:17.5	When Derek Ray, who broadcasts a lot of the Bundesliga games, was talking to us,
1:23.0	he said that he remembers it by thinking,
1:25.7	Polisic rhymes with terrific.
1:28.2	Well, Sam, in the early part of Polisick's career with Chelsea
1:32.9	when he debuted last August, it wasn't quite terrific.
1:36.7	He had mixed results, a stretch of five games without a start,
1:40.2	only appeared in two of them.
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