Matthew Hoppe’s late effort to get back into the U.S. men’s national team’s World Cup roster picture will take him to England.
Hoppe has left Mallorca for Middlesbrough in a permanent transfer worth a reported $3.6 million, and he has signed a four-year deal with his new club, where he’ll team up, at least for this season, with on-loan U.S. goalkeeper Zack Steffen.
Hoppe broke out at Schalke in the winter of 2021, when, at 19, he became the first American men’s player to register a Bundesliga hat trick. That also ended Schalke’s 30-match winless run in the German top flight and put him firmly on the radar as one to watch for the future.