Proud Leeds United star Tyler Adams looks to exciting future and 2026 date despite USA admission - YEP 4/12/22
Leeds United’s Tyler Adams admits the concession of too many chances proved the difference in Saturday’s World Cup exit for the USA but looked ahead to an exciting future building up to 2026.
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Whites midfielder Adams captained the States to progression
out of the competition’s group stages, sealing a clash against Louis van Gaal’s
Netherlands side in the last 16. Fellow Leeds star Brenden Aaronson also
featured in all three group stage games as a second-half substitute but the US
reached the end of the road in Saturday’s clash against the Netherlands who
sealed a 3-1 victory through strikes from Memphis Depay, Daley Blind and Denzel
Dumfries. Adams admitted his side ultimately gave van Gaal’s quality side too
many opportunities to score but declared his excitement for the future and the
2026 World Cup which his nation will co-host alongside Canada and Mexico.
"A game like that, it comes down to the margins
obviously,” said Adams to post match media. "When you play a team with so
much quality like that, and you give them three, four chances, they're going to
put three or three or four away. For us, I'm super proud of the boys'
performance, we can show that we can hang with some of the best teams in the
world, some of the best players in the world and that's a lot of progress for
US Soccer. We're moving in the right direction for sure. But we need to keep
pushing because we're not there yet. But we're close.
"It's exciting. Obviously, the more time together, the
more growth we should have. But that being said, we still need to develop
individually into more mature players for moments like this where we can come
out on top. It comes down to the moments and you can see a little bit more
experienced team got the better of us. But our youth, our potential that we
have, we need to maximize that moving forward in the time we have between now
and obviously 2026."
