The forward announced a radical change in his mind before the 1/16 final match against Bosnia and Herzegovina and called on the team to rewrite history.
Team USA forward Folarin Balogun became the leading voice of the American team ahead of the start of the playoff round of the World Championship. After the USA successfully won Group D, they will face the 1/16 final match against Bosnia and Herzegovina in Santa Clara (California) on Wednesday..
Balogun, who had already scored two goals in the tournament and dared his opponent to cut the ball in front of the goal in the game with Australia, before the week-long training session, he told journalists that the atmosphere around the team had become.
" Football is for fun, so if you lose, you go home. Also for me there was a change in my mentality. Not if I haven’t taken this seriously before, but now you can just switch to another program because you want more. I don’t want our price to end,” the forward said.
Balogun said loudly that the US visup is not far away, since the command to fly is already on Wednesday. On my mind, the time has come for those who can lead the team at critical moments.
" This is the stage, if, in my opinion, the great graves are guilty of taking responsibility for themselves,” the attacker categorically stated.
Balogun’s words sound especially relevant in the historical statistics of the US national team, as the next generation will experience it:
The Americans have won only one playoff match at a world championship in their entire history (2:0 against Mexico back in 2002). The team is on a 13-match winless streak against European teams (the previous victory over the Europeans was also in 2002 over Portugal).
Prote Balogun urges his partners not to think about the past: “The best way to turn history around is not to think about those that have not been completed, but simply think about those that need to be completed for progress,” summing up.