MILAN — Christian Pulisic will try to revive his sagging membership profession at American-owned AC Milan main into a house World Cup within the United States in 2026.

Milan introduced on Thursday that Pulisic has signed a four-year take care of the membership, with the Rossoneri retaining the choice for an additional season.

Considered the highest U.S. participant, the 24-year-old Pulisic struggled with accidents and by no means totally lived as much as expectations at Chelsea. He has left the London membership with a yr left on his contract.

The midfielder-forward is about to develop into the third American to play for the Rossoneri after Oguchi Onyewu and Sergiño Dest.

Milan, which is owned by American funding agency RedBird, paid a switch payment of $22 million for Pulisic, in accordance with the Gazzetta dello Sport. That’s lower than a 3rd of what Chelsea paid Borussia Dortmund for Pulisic in 2019.

“I’m very happy to be here. I’m excited. I’m excited to start with this historic club,” Pulisic instructed reporters ready for him upon arrival at Milan’s Malpensa airport on Wednesday. “It’s legendary and I’m really excited to come here and try to win some titles.”

PHOTOS: Christian Pulisic indicators with US-owned AC Milan to revive his membership profession earlier than dwelling World Cup

Milan is a seven-time European champion and misplaced to metropolis rival Inter Milan within the Champions League semifinals final season. The Rossoneri received the final of their 19 Serie A titles in 2022.

Despite his struggles at Chelsea, Pulisic did win the Champions League, European Super Cup and Club World Cup.

Pulisic has performed 60 instances for the United States, scoring 25 instances. The Pennsylvania native helped the squad attain the final 16 ultimately yr’s World Cup in Qatar.

The 2026 World Cup can be co-hosted by the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Pulisic is the second participant to go away Chelsea for Milan on this switch window after Ruben Loftus-Cheek. Pulisic can even be reunited with former Chelsea teammates Olivier Giroud and Fikayo Tomori at Milan.

It received’t take a lot for Pulisic to do higher than Onyewu and Dest did at Milan.

Onyewu performed solely 31 minutes for Milan in a 2009 Champions League match earlier than a knee harm whereas on U.S. group obligation dominated him out long run. He additionally obtained right into a coaching session brawl with Zlatan Ibrahimović.

Dest made simply eight appearances for Milan on a mortgage spell from Barcelona final season.

Pulisic will take Ibrahimović’s No. 11 shirt after the previous Sweden worldwide retired after final season.

After information of Pulisic’s impending switch surfaced final week, the Gazzetta dello Sport featured him on its entrance web page on Saturday with a headline that translated as “Captain America is coming” - subsequent to a photomontage of Pulisic dressed because the superhero.

While Pulisic has typically captained the U.S., Tyler Adams had that honor ultimately yr’s World Cup.

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