{"id":263889,"date":"2026-09-22T14:29:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T14:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/meet-cavan-sullivan-the-16-year-old-phenom-leading-the-usmnts-post-world-cup-boom\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T14:29:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T14:29:48","slug":"meet-cavan-sullivan-the-16-year-old-phenom-leading-the-usmnts-post-world-cup-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/meet-cavan-sullivan-the-16-year-old-phenom-leading-the-usmnts-post-world-cup-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Cavan Sullivan, the 16-year-old phenom leading the USMNT&#8217;s post-World Cup boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The United States Men&#8217;s National Team is returning to action this week for the first time since its World Cup exit at the hands of Belgium\u2014and this time, things are looking a little different.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Mauricio Pochettino, fresh off a contract extension that should keep him with the program for another four-year World Cup cycle, selected a roster sprinkled with young, inexperienced players to lead the USMNT into its next phase.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest name on that roster? Cavan Sullivan. The 16-year-old Philadelphia Union attacker has been making headlines for years as the next great USMNT prospect, and this camp will be his first chance to deliver upon his well-deserved hype.<\/p>\n<p>But who is Sullivan? What has he achieved in his short career thus far? And why is the American soccer ecosystem so excited about his potential?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/soccer\/articles\/meet_cavan_sullivan_the_16_year_old_phenom_leading_the_usmnts_post_world_cup_boom\/s1_13132_44333402\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Men&#8217;s National Team is returning to action this week for the first time since its World Cup exit at the hands of Belgium\u2014and this time, things are looking a little different. Coach Mauricio Pochettino, fresh off a contract extension that should keep him with the program for another four-year World Cup cycle, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}