And he was dangerous in all three group phase matches at the Gold Cup. player at last month's U-20 World Cup in Argentina, where he scored three times in five games. The San Jose Earthquakes forward was arguably the most impressive U.S. In 2021, Matt Turner parlayed his first sustained opportunity with the national team into a starting role at last year's World Cup.
The list includes the likes of DaMarcus Beasley and Stuart Holden. He's becoming that."Īt every version of the biennial Gold Cup, at least one fringe USMNT member seems to play his way to a long, sometimes decorated career in red, white and blue. "What he does for the team, he makes players better around him," the temporary boss told FOX Sports' Jenny Taft in Charlotte.
And according to Callaghan, it's not just goals he offers. For now, he's firmly in the mix and he should be, as his Gold Cup performances to date have shown. More to the point, eventually Ferreira must prove that he can also score against the stouter defenses of Europe and South America's best teams. If he goes cold in the knockout stage, nobody will remember anything else. That's a godsend for a program that suddenly has real competition up top between Ferreira, Folarin Balogun and Ricardo Pepi.įerreira must continue to produce, of course. Ferreira is still putting the ball in the net for his country at a rate comparable to (and in this particular two-game stretch, better than) some of the most prolific USMNT attackers ever. These are still international games, though. It doesn't change the fact that the 22-year-old FC Dallas forward has done absolutely everything in his power since then to show that he can be a consistent goal-getter at the very highest level. fans to forget Ferreira's poor 45-minute cameo in the 2022 World Cup round of 16. The cold hard reality is that it's going to take more than another hatty against another regional foe for most U.S.
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