A few minutes before the 2022 home World Cup qualifier against Mexico one year ago, Christian Pulisic was chatting with U.S. center back Aaron Long. The day before, Mexico goalkeeper Memo Ochoa said that “Mexico has been the mirror in which [the U.S.] wants to see themselves” to TUDN. “It’d be funny if I wrote that on my shirt,” said Pulisic to Long. “He was like, ‘Do it then.’ And I was like, “all right.”
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