The following time that American soccer star Tyler Adams steps onto the sphere at MetLife Stadium after this summer season, he hopes it’s within the World Cup last in 2026.
“I freaking hope so. That’s the biggest dream of them all, is to play in a World Cup final and raise that trophy,” the A.F.C. Bournemouth and U.S. Males’s Nationwide Crew ahead tells The Put up. “I’ve played in MetLife plenty of times before. To do it with Bournemouth is going to be special, and then obviously, to do it in a World Cup final, even more special. So yeah, hopefully, we can play twice in the next year and a half, and then win both games.”
As Adams alluded to, first, the midfielder goes to take the pitch on the East Rutherford stadium together with his Premier League membership this summer season as a part of the Premier League Summer season Sequence that will likely be happening from July 26-Aug. 3 at MetLife, Soldier Subject in Chicago and Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
Adams and Bournemouth will face Everton on July 26 at MetLife at 4 p.m., with a match between Manchester United and West Ham United following at 7 p.m.
For the Wappinger Falls, N.Y. native and Purple Bull academy product, the July 26 match towards Everton will likely be a homecoming of kinds.
Adams has gone from being a bright-eyed teenager within the MLS membership’s academy to a star in New York and now in one of many sport’s best-known leagues, the Premier League.
The 26-year-old was named Bournemouth’s Participant of the Month in February and has three assists in 13 begins this season for his Premier League membership, after his season debut was delayed till October attributable to summer season again surgical procedure.
Bournemouth has been Adams’ third membership since he made the bounce abroad in 2019, with stops at RB Leipzig and Leeds United earlier than signing with Bournemouth in the summertime of 2023.
Adams credit his time with the Purple Bulls — the place he performed as a part of the primary crew from 2015-18 — for serving to him grow to be the star he’s.
“You see a higher level of soccer and that really raises the bar and is able to push you,” Adams stated about his expertise with the Purple Bull Academy. “We had some great coaches throughout my academy. Times in New York Red Bull, great other players that I played with that, you know, some are playing with the senior national team now as well. So I was exposed to a high level of football.”
When requested what he remembers most from his time with the Purple Bulls, he shortly responded it was the commute.
“Going from New York to Jersey is no close journey, especially being from a little bit more upstate New York,” he stated with a chuckle. “It’s not like I was in Manhattan or closer to where we trained. You know, I was thankful to my parents for obviously making that trek. So, yeah, the journey was challenging, but I was often sleeping in the passenger seat, so I was fortunate.”
Whereas Adams is targeted on his present season with Bournemouth, it’s laborious to not preserve a watch down the road to the summer season of 2026 when the World Cup involves the USA, Mexico and Canada.
The USA has not had significantly sturdy showings not too long ago in worldwide play, with the USMNT falling to Panama in a notably ugly vogue on March 20 after which following it up with a loss to Canada.
Adams, who was fast to deflect any blame for brand spanking new USMNT coach, Mauricio Pochettino, after the loss to Canada, stated a part of what it would come all the way down to for them is what number of guys on the roster have been enjoying persistently.
“That’s really what it comes down to, you can’t go into a national team setting and hope that someone gets hot at the right time,” stated Adams, who served as nationwide crew captain in the course of the 2022 World Cup. “In soccer, it’s not always that easy. It’s not like basketball at the Olympics or something else. You can’t rely on one guy, and you need guys that are playing week in, week out, are comfortable in pressure situations, have been doing it all season long, and I think we’re getting more and more of that. But I still think we need … guys playing at the highest level as consistently as possible.”
