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Christian Pulisic, who is enjoying his best season as a professional for A.C. Milan, has been nominated for The Best FIFA Football Award for midfielders.
Christian Pulisic, who is enjoying his best season as a professional for A.C. Milan, has been nominated for The Best FIFA Football Award for midfielders.
The U.S. men’s national team standout was one of 22 players who made the list.
The other candidates were: Acosta, Almada, Baena, Bellingham, Calhanoglu, Camavinga, Foden, Ganso, Kroos, Kubo, López, Odegard, Olmo, Palmer, Rice, Rodri, James Rodríguez, Fabián, Valverde, Wirtz and Xhaka.
Pulisic, who accrued a career-best 16 goals last season, has racked up eight goals and four assists in 18 contests across all competitions this season. For the USMNT, he has scored twice and assisted on two goals in his last five appearances.
He started A.C. Milan to a 3-2 victory over host Slovan Bratislava in the UEFA Champions League with a brilliant individual goal in the 21st minute on Tuesday, Nov. 26. Tammy Abraham, just past the center circle, hit an on-rushing Pulisic on the right flank. Pulisic outran his marker down that side before slotting from 12 yards into the lower left corner past goalkeeper Dominik Takáč to lift the Italian Serie A team to a 1-0 lead.
Front Row Soccer editor Michael Lewis has covered 13 World Cups (eight men, five women), seven Olympics and 25 MLS Cups. He has written about New York City FC, New York Cosmos, the New York Red Bulls and both U.S. national teams for Newsday and has penned a soccer history column for the Guardian.com. Lewis, who has been honored by the Press Club of Long Island and National Soccer Coaches Association of America, is the former editor of BigAppleSoccer.com. He has written seven books about the beautiful game and has published ALIVE AND KICKING The incredible but true story of the Rochester Lancers. It is available at Amazon.com.
