The USMNT star has looked right at home since signing for AC Milan last summer and has outlined his favourite parts of the Italian lifestyle.
By the end of his time at Chelsea, Christian Pulisic had started to look like a spare part. Now, less than a year after joining AC Milan, the USMNT star is a key player for one of the best teams in Italy.
Pulisic had been hailed for greatness since moving to German side Borussia Dortmund at the age of 15 and had taken on a leadership role within the national team set-up from a young age. But despite that early promise his big-money move to Chelsea turned sour and he fell out of favour at Stamford Bridge. The transfer to Milan became a necessary step, both to reignite his career and to refresh him personally.
“The lifestyle over here is definitely a shift from London,” Pulisic told Fox Sports. “Everything feels a bit slowed-down. Obviously nicer weather. It’s been a great change for me.
“Everything was moving kind of 100 miles an hour when I was in London, and the football culture was crazy,” he continued. “Here, I’ve been able to get away from the game, too, and enjoy the lifestyle, the culture, the food. I’m liking it a lot.”
AC Milan, last year’s Champions League semi-finalists, remain one of the most illustrious names in world soccer. But even the glint of their glittering history is a little more forgiving than the mega-watt glare of the Premier League.
As European club soccer prepares to return to action for the crucial run-in, AC Milan sit in second place in Serie A. It has been a good campaign from Stefano Pioli’s men but they are 14 points adrift of league leaders and city rivals Inter Milan, who have all but secured the title.
But Milan still have a real chance of picking up
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