Christian Pulisic broke down in tears on the bench after an injury forced him out of the game in the 59th minute, leaving him unable to help the U.S. men’s national team’s comeback efforts against Belgium in the round of 16 in Seattle on Monday night.
Without their star winger, the Stars and Stripes fell 4–1 and crashed out of the World Cup at the same stage as fellow co-hosts Canada and Mexico, unable to fight back from a disastrous start and a mistake from goalkeeper Matt Freese.