Christian Pulisic, on the Mend, Says He’ll Play on Saturday

Coach Gregg Berhalter said after the game that the team had celebrated with an absent Pulisic in a video call from the locker room. About an hour after that, they got to see him again in person.

The reunion came at the end of a boisterous guard of honor that greeted the American players when their team bus deposited them back at their hotel in the early hours of Wednesday morning: two whooping and clapping lines of fans, family members, federation and hotel staff.

Pulisic, waiting alone at the end of it, was recording it all on his cellphone. His presence, it seemed, came a surprise to at least a couple of his teammates. Forward Tim Weah, spotting his friend, threw his arms around him in a warm embrace. Defender DeAndre Yedlin pushed his face front and center in Pulisic’s recording.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/sports/soccer/christian-pulisic-world-cup.html