A year after featuring for Schalke's U-19 team, the midfielder has a looming Champions League and future World Cup in his sights
To understand just how high and how fast Weston McKennie's stock has risen in a short amount of time, you need only go back one year.
At this time in 2017, McKennie was a regular on Schalke's U-19 team, and the closest he was to a national team look was the Under-20 World Cup he wound up missing because his club team had other plans for him.
Even McKennie couldn't have envisioned what would follow in the next 12 months.