Ricardo Pepi

There was always going to be a period of adaptation. Ricardo Pepi is 19 years old. He was 18 when his $20 million transfer to FC Augsburg was confirmed. Prior to his breakout 2021 season with FC Dallas, he'd played just 528 minutes in Major League Soccer. To expect the...

Over the course of its 14 World Cup qualifying matches, the United States men's national team scored 20 goals. Of those 20, a whopping four were scored by a center-forward. Put another way: American defenders scored as many goals in the Octagonal as American strikers did. This is the blessing...

Soccer's next international break is on the horizon and it will determine the United States men's national team's 2022 World Cup fate. The window has the last three matches of the qualifying cycle. The opener is maybe the biggest match of the qualifying cycle: the USMNT's trip to Mexico to take on El Tri in Estadio Azteca on March 24 (a match you can catch on Paramount+).

United States men's national team striker Ricardo Pepi went from top young prospect in Major League Soccer with FC Dallas to struggling in Europe with Augsburg overnight. The American talent has been at the Bundesliga club now for a couple months, but he's yet to settle in with the team battling for its top-flight lives.

Long before a barely 17-year-old Christian Pulisic started scoring goals for Bundesliga power Borussia Dortmund in early 2016, Germany’s top league was the preferred jumping off point for young American soccer players. Landon Donovan began his professional career there. So did fellow USMNT greats Claudio Reyna, Steve Cherundolo and...

BERLIN (AP) — One of United States forward Ricardo Pepi’s biggest challenges since moving to Germany has been to convince people why he chose to join relegation-threatened Augsburg. The 19-year-old Pepi, who was arguably the brightest prospect in Major League Soccer after scoring 13 goals for FC Dallas...