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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Sport
Pablo Iglesias Maurer

‘I’m pretty sure I didn’t imagine it’: the little-known trio of high schoolers who made USMNT history

Bora Milutinovic coaches a group of players during a USMNT training session in 1993.
During his time in charge of the USMNT, Bora Milutinovic had a reputation for calling up youngsters to the senior level. Photograph: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images

If 16-year-old Cavan Sullivan takes the field for the US men’s national team in the coming days, he will join a list of youngest-ever US players that has no shortage of recognizable names.

At the top is onetime phenom (turned cautionary tale) Freddy Adu, still the youngest player to ever appear for the US men. Names in the top 20 like Eddie Gaven and Bobby Convey will feel familiar to longtime US fans; Christian Pulisic, Yunus Musah and Gio Reyna are all still very much in the picture and may well prove to be Sullivan’s future partners in attack.

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