Presented with new challenges and new levels, the Philadelphia Union product turned RB Salzburg rising star has met and exceeded the bar immediately at every stop
It took the US men’s national team two-and-a-half games to reach the cliff’s edge of World Cup qualifying panic. An insipid first 45 had them down 1-0 at the break in Honduras, a dispiriting performance that followed equally dispiriting back-to-back draws to open the cycle. This program had stared at that abyss before. Once again it was staring back at them.
Sweeping changes from head coach Gregg Berhalter were necessary. One of the players entrusted to salvage a result, and to silence a narrative building calling for his job, was 20-year-old RB Salzburg midfielder Brenden Aaronson.
