Henry Bushnell
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281 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Henry Bushnell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And of course, there are other players.
There's Weston McKinney.
There's Fuller and Balogun, who ended the season on a great scoring run at Monaco in France.
But Pulisic is really the person who is going to drive this team.
Yeah, look, it's a question that a lot of people have asked over the years.
And as some people told me, and as I was reporting the story, you could ask 100 people this question, and you get 100 different answers about why the US hasn't produced a great player.
But the one that
I tend to go towards and that a lot of people tend to go towards is just soccer culture.
Like soccer arrived here very late.
It didn't become ingrained in society in the same way that it did in a lot of countries in Europe, South America, Africa and beyond.
And.
The way that trickles down and translate into talent development is that kids don't grow up with a ball at their feet.
They don't grow obsessed with the game at a young ages.
And when you talk to experts in talent development, that's actually a massive part of... Soccer is such a complicated sport, or football as a lot of people would call it, is such a complicated sport that you need to master the ball skills at a very young age just by exploring it and experimenting.
And...
For a lot of US kids, the first, you know, the real introduction to the game is just going to play on a youth team at five or six years old, as opposed to having a ball at their feet at three or four years old and going out in the street and playing with friends.
And I think that has more of...
an impact than we realize.
And there are a lot of other issues too, for sure.
There's the system, there's the pay-to-play model, there's things that trickle up to the system.
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