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Featured in our March issue, Nick Bidwell writes a profile on the young American star Christian Pulisic.

Player Profile: Christian Pulisic

The soccer-crazy kid from Hershey in Pennsylvania had been tipped for the top right from the very start. Taking advantage of his father’s coaching connections, he spent a week training at Barcelona’s iconic La Masia academy as a 10-year-old and by his early teens he was an object of desire for a host of leading European sides, invited for trials by the likes of Chelsea, Porto, Villarreal, PSV and Borussia Dortmund – whose youth programme he would eventually plump for in the summer of 2014.