Alexi Lalas says US players citing World Cup pressure are a 'bunch of whiners'
NEW YORK (AP) — Alexi Lalas doesn't want to hear U. S. players citing pressure ahead of playing in a World Cup at home and says Christian Pulisic, the top American, is “never going to be the leader.
” “Cry me a river, OK, when it comes to the pressure. Bunch of whiners, that they’re whining about the pressure,” Lalas said Thursday at a Fox event to promote its World Cup coverage. Lalas, 55, played for the U.
S. when it hosted the 1994 World Cup and has been Fox's top soccer analyst since late 2014. American players, hoping to reach the quarterfinals for the first time since 2002, haven't complained about pressure but have said it exists.
“There’s pressure, I feel it. Yes, it’s there, but it’s nothing that I can’t handle,” Pulisic said in March . “I’m going to, yeah, attack it head on.
We are as a team. I don’t need to do it by myself. ” “Allow me to grumpy old man a little bit here,” Lalas said.
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