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USMNT

Yunus Musah has never looked back

A year and 3 months since Yunus Musah committed his international career to the USA, we look at the trajectory of his time with USMNT & consider whether he's ever had a second thought

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Megan Swanick
Jun 20, 2022
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Watching Yunus Musah slide across the mud at Estadio Cuscatlan in the 78th minute of last Tuesday’s Nations League match- palms to the sky as he sat in the mess of it, mouth agape as he processed the mud- I couldn’t help but wonder if he wondered, what have I done.

The 19-year-old Arsenal product featured for England’s youth national teams from U15-U18 levels and as a teenager in London, he imagined that’s where he’d play. He could have represented England, Italy, or Ghana’s crest in international football. But last March, he decided to represent the USA’s. 

456 days since that fateful decision, there sat Yunus, king of the mud in San Salvador. 

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