U.S. men’s national team manager Mauricio Pochettino made the bold choice of calling up 13 uncapped players—including eight teenagers—to his team this fall, and he walked away from Orlando’s Inter.co Stadium on Saturday night knowing he made the right decision.
The youngest—and most exciting—of the debutants against Peru was certainly 16-year-old Cavan Sullivan, who is just one day away from his 17th birthday. The teenage winger earned the start from Pochettino and immediately dazzled down the right flank, as he has done all summer long in Major League Soccer with his homegrown club, the Philadelphia Union.
