{"id":7361,"date":"2026-09-26T21:28:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T21:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7361"},"modified":"2026-09-26T21:28:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T21:28:55","slug":"cavan-sullivan-makes-usa-debut-at-age-16-youngest-since-freddy-adu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7361","title":{"rendered":"Cavan Sullivan Makes USA Debut At Age 16, Youngest Since Freddy Adu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-4d988373>Age is but a number. And U.S. men&#8217;s national team fans who are already thinking about the 2030 World Cup have a new name to keep tabs on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-4d988373>Cavan Sullivan, at age 16, made his USMNT debut with his start in Saturday&#8217;s friendly against Peru. He is the youngest player to take the pitch for the Stars and Stripes since Freddy Adu did so in 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-4d988373>Sullivan, who turns 17 on Monday, has been a prospect since breaking out with MLS side Philadelphia Union as a 14-year-old. He has seven goals and 12 assists in 26 games for the Union this season. He has a contract with Premier League powerhouse Manchester City that will allow to move to Europe when he turns 18 in 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-4d988373>Sullivan is the fourth-youngest player (16 years, 362 days) to earn a cap for the U.S. men&#8217;s team and the youngest since Adu did so at 16 years, 234 days against Canada in January 2006. He previously broke Adu&#8217;s record of the becoming the youngest player to appear in a league match for a major men&#8217;s professional sports league in the U.S. and Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-4d988373>Expect Sullivan to now stay in the picture for USMNT manager Mauricio Pochettino&#8217;s squad for years to come, including for competitions like the 2027 CONCACAF Gold Cup and beyond.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROWSE BY Age is but a number. And U.S. men&#8217;s national team fans who are already thinking about the 2030 World Cup have a new name to keep tabs on.\u00a0 Cavan Sullivan, at age 16, made his USMNT debut with his start in Saturday&#8217;s friendly against Peru. He is the youngest player to take the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}