‘It’s Bible time’: How religion became part of the USMNT’s World Cup identity
9d 9h ago by feddit.online/u/CombatWombat in ussoccer from www.theguardian.com
From Christian Pulisic to Weston McKennie, many of the team’s biggest stars have been open about their faith, creating a new dynamic for a home World Cup
Just when you thought it was impossible to care less about how the USMNT does in this World Cup:
In the third episode of the interminable, nine-part Pulisic docuseries, its subject, Christian Pulisic, sits down at a dining table, pink orchids blooming behind him. “It is what time?” a friend asks him, holding a camera in Pulisic’s face. “Bible time,” Pulisic answers, thumbing through the good book with a pencil perched between his fingers, a notepad turned to a fresh blank page poised beside it. The ever-present cross dangles from his necklace.