A 17-year-old has rewritten a piece of United States soccer history. Mathis Albert, a teenager in the Borussia Dortmund system, became the youngest goalscorer in U.S. men's national team history, overtaking the record previously held by Christian Pulisic.
Albert's milestone arrived with the United States leading 3-2. His finish, the Americans' fourth goal of the night, put the game away and secured a 4-3 result.
The record had stood since Pulisic's own teenage breakthrough, making Albert's achievement a notable marker of the current pipeline of young American talent developing in Europe. Albert, who is 17, plays his club soccer for Borussia Dortmund, one of Germany's most prominent development environments.
For local supporters of the national team, the significance is twofold: the record falls to a player still in his teens, and it falls at a moment when the U.S. attack needed a decisive goal. Albert delivered both.
