BONN, Germany — Julian Green has been in the public eye long enough that it’s hard to believe he’s never really gotten his professional soccer career untracked. At the same time, it seems hard to believe that a player who is just 21 needs a jump-start for what was once a rapid ascent on the U.S. national team.
Famously developed through the Bayern Munich youth system, the Tampa-born, German-raised Green has spent the vast majority of his club career trying to justify its auspicious beginning. Little came of four years of struggling to break through with one of the best teams in the world.