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Pulisic scores as U.S. draws with Brazil pre-Copa

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Wednesday, 12 June 2024 19:54

Christian Pulisic scored with a clever free kick to help the United States to a 1-1 draw with Brazil in Orlando, Florida, on Wednesday night, as the two teams prepare to play in this summer's Copa América.

Rebounding from a 5-1 loss to Colombia last weekend, the U.S. stopped its 11-match losing streak against the Brazilians in a wide-open match. The Americans are now 1-18-1 with the draw against Brazil, getting their only win in a 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinal.

Matt Turner had 11 saves, the most for an American goalkeeper since Tim Howard's 15 in the second-round 2-1 loss to Belgium at the 2014 World Cup.

Among six invited guests to the Copa América, the U.S. opens against Bolivia on June 23 and then plays Panama and Uruguay. Brazil, which last won the South American title in 2007, has first-round matches against Costa Rica, Paraguay and Colombia.

The game drew a mostly pro-Brazilian crowd of 60,016 to Camping World Stadium, the largest attendance for a U.S. national team game in Florida.

Yunus Musah nearly put the U.S. ahead in the fifth minute with a 25-yard shot that hit the crossbar and ricocheted off the back of goalkeeper Alisson but stayed out of the net.

Brazil went ahead when Turner took a back pass from Tim Ream and sent the ball upfield for Musah, who was switching off. Brazilian midfielder Bruno Guimarães intercepted with a header toward Raphinha, who fed Rodrygo with a diagonal pass for his sixth international goal, an 8-yard shot past Turner.

Pulisic was pulled down by João Gomes at the edge of the penalty area and slotted a free kick through the defensive wall and past Alisson's right hand for his 29th goal in 68 international appearances.

Christian Pulisic celebrates after scoring a goal for the U.S. against Brazil in a friendly in Orlando.

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Turner made excellent stops on 17-year-old Endrick in the 70th, Rodrygo in the 74th and Vinícius Júnior in the 87th, then punched away Andreas Pereira's free kick in the sixth minute of stoppage time. Alisson denied Pulisic in the 68th and Brenden Aaronson in the 80th.

The U.S. again used rainbow numbers for Pride Month, this time on jerseys that were largely blue with a low white diagonal slash and a small amount of red at the bottom.

USMNT coach Gregg Berhalter made two changes from Saturday's 5-1 loss to Colombia, inserting forward Ricardo Pepi and Musah for Folarin Balogun and Johnny Cardoso. All 11 starters played for European clubs -- just six of 154 starting positions have been filled with Major League Soccer players for the 14 matches the full pool has been available for since the 2022 World Cup, including three of 110 since Berhalter returned as coach.

The U.S. had not played at the former Citrus Bowl since Berhalter made his first international start in an exhibition against Sweden on Jan. 24, 1998.

Brazil coach Dorival Júnior changed 10 of 11 starters from Saturday's 3-2 win over Mexico, keeping Alisson as the only holdover.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this story.

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