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A long-ago travel snafu meant Balogun had not one but three national team uniforms to choose from come 2026. <\/strong><\/p>

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Folarin Balogun is feeling at home on the U.S. national team. (Andre Penner\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

IRVINE, Calif. \u2014 Before the ball even arrived, Folarin Balogun seemed to have it all choreographed.<\/p>\n

He had room to run, beat one defender with ease and sidestepped another like a trained dancer. The finish was ruthless, and it was the kind of play, from the kind of player, the U.S. men\u2019s soccer team had spent years wondering if it would ever find: a striker who could make the position feel less like happenstance and more like a threat.<\/p>\n

U.S. Soccer has long searched for a forward who did not simply wait for chances but helped create them with movement, timing and a finisher\u2019s certainty. Balogun, who plays for the French club AS Monaco, was hardly guaranteed to be part of that search.<\/p>\n

Raised in England by Nigerian parents, Balogun, 24, spent most of his youth international career in England\u2019s system and once seemed destined to suit up for England. But a long-ago travel snafu, combined with his Nigerian ancestry, meant Balogun had not one but three national team <\/b>uniforms to choose from come 2026.<\/p>\n

The soccer world followed his recruitment closely, including a supposedly clandestine meeting in Orlando that American fans helped blow open with online pleas and hotel-lobby lobbying. Balogun made his choice official in May 2023, but he introduced himself to the once-every-four-years crowd last Friday night. He scored twice, including on that left-footed rocket, and nearly added a third in the Americans\u2019 4-1 trouncing of Paraguay.<\/p>\n

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Balogun scored twice and nearly added a third goal in an opening win against Paraguay. (Jayne Kamin-Oncea\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

On Friday in Seattle, he\u2019ll try to follow up on his breakout performance when the United States faces Australia in its second group-stage match. It will be a test case for a larger idea: that the Americans might finally have the scoring threat they spent years trying to identify.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a little different,\u201d said Alexi Lalas, the lead soccer analyst for Fox Sports and a former U.S. national team defender. \u201cThe opportunities that he can create even at times for himself \u2014 and obviously his finishing ability, which we\u2019ve seen and certainly saw the other day. What you want from somebody up there is to have the confidence that if given that one opportunity, they\u2019re going to bury it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Balogun’s journey eventually led him to the French club AS Monaco. (Laurent Cipriani\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

In the summer of 2001, Balogun\u2019s Nigerian-born parents were living in London when they traveled to New York. Florence Balogun was seven months pregnant at the time, and, as she has recounted it, wasn\u2019t allowed to board her return flight without medical clearance. So she gave birth in Brooklyn before the young family left the country weeks later. They named him Folarin, a Yoruba name often translated as \u201cwalks with wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second of three children, Balogun was raised in London and started playing for Aldersbrook, a grassroots club, before he was spotted by Arsenal and joined the team\u2019s Hale End academy at age 8.<\/p>\n

England became his soccer home: the academy, the youth national teams, the pathway that seemed most obvious. But his international options remained open: the United States through his Brooklyn birth; Nigeria through his parents; and England, his home.<\/p>\n

England, among the favorites at this World Cup, seemed the obvious path. But in 2023, after Balogun scored 21 goals while on loan from Arsenal to the French club Reims, his choice became more urgent \u2014 and far more closely watched.<\/p>\n

Perhaps no one needed him more than the U.S., which managed just three goals in four World Cup matches in 2022 and had missed the 2018 tournament completely.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has had go-to strikers before, including Brian McBride, Jozy Altidore and others who carried the weight of the position in different eras. But the search for a modern, reliable \u201cNo. 9\u201d \u2014 soccer shorthand for the central striker who leads the line and turns chances into goals \u2014 has stretched across World Cup cycles.<\/p>\n

In Qatar in 2022, coach Gregg Berhalter started Josh Sargent, Haji Wright and Jes\u00fas Ferreira in four games in search of a spark. When Wright scored off the bench in the round-of-16 loss to the Netherlands, it marked the first goal by an American striker at a World Cup since McBride in 2002.<\/p>\n

So the U.S. made its push, joining England and Nigeria in a competition that was unfolding away from the field for one of the sport\u2019s more intriguing young forwards.<\/p>\n

The next year, <\/b>Balogun withdrew from England\u2019s under-21 camp and flew to Orlando, where the U.S. team was gathering for Nations League matches. What was meant to be a quiet rendezvous quickly became something else. Fans spotted clues on his Instagram, tracked him to Florida and flooded his social media with American flags and messages urging him to choose the United States.<\/p>\n

Even in person, Balogun felt the push.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were so many fans motivating me and telling me how much they wanted me to represent [the U.S.] on my social media,\u201d Balogun said. \u201cAnd even when I was in Orlando, there were people recognizing me and saying, \u2018We want you to play for the U.S.\u2019 And that was motivating because it just shows, you know, how \u2014 people say soccer is not a big thing over here, but I do think it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

The recruitment had the feel of a college visit. U.S. Soccer officials met with him. The Orlando Sports Commission supplied courtside tickets to an Orlando Magic game and a VIP pass to Universal. The New York Yankees invited him to spring training. U.S. players including Weston McKennie, Matt Turner, Yunus Musah and Christian Pulisic took him to dinner.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was the first time actually meeting Weston,\u201d Balogun said. \u201cCP, a lot of the boys were there. \u2026 It was cool and they made me feel welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI just remember having to take him out to a nice dinner, and I didn\u2019t get that treatment,\u201d McKennie said with a chuckle. \u201cBut I guess you can say he cashed in the chips and delivered in the game against Paraguay. … In the return it was not an expensive dinner \u2014 it was a cheaper dinner for what we got.\u201d<\/p>

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Balogun would later call the decision a \u201cno-brainer,\u201d saying \u201cit feels like I\u2019m at home here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I broke the news to my family they were all just over the moon,\u201d Balogun told the U.S. Soccer website<\/a> shortly after the announcement, \u201cespecially my mom. She said, \u2018What took you so long?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

For Balogun, the decision has always been framed less as a transaction than a return. He chose the country where he was born, the team that made him feel wanted and the fan base that, in his telling, recruited him before he was sure he wanted to be recruited.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fans gave me so much motivation, showed me so much support,\u201d Balogun said after the Paraguay game. \u201cThe most important thing has always been to be able to repay that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Balogun, along with Christian Pulisic, left, and Antonee Robinson, arrive at Los Angeles Stadium for the Americans’ game against Paraguay. (Richard Heathcote\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Balogun\u2019s emergence has filled a sizable hole when the U.S. needed it most, as it hosts its first World Cup in three decades.<\/p>\n

On this squad, he offers something different from Ricardo Pepi, who can play with his back to goal, and Wright, the 6-foot-3 runner who can overwhelm defenders with size and speed. Balogun has the speed and positional awareness to stretch opposing back lines and the two-footed finishing prowess to turn half-chances into goals.<\/p>\n

He also gives the Americans the kind of defensive pressure they want from the front, chasing immediately after turnovers and helping them win the ball back before opponents can break out. And for a 5-foot-10 forward, he is stronger than he looks, able to absorb contact and maintain possession long enough for teammates to join the attack.<\/p>\n

A striker, Lalas said, can also be \u201cthe first line of defense,\u201d and Balogun gives the U.S. that, too. He forced Paraguay\u2019s defenders into uncomfortable decisions, initiated pressure high up the field and made the kind of runs that do not always show up in a box score but often create the goals that do.<\/p>\n

He said Balogun is \u201clethal in the box,\u201d but is also \u201cvery, very good at finding runs.\u201d His second goal against Paraguay \u2014 the left-footed blast \u2014 is Exhibit A.<\/p>\n

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Balogun beats Paraguay goalkeeper Orlando Gill for one of two opening-match goals. (Matthew Childs\/Reuters)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cHe almost showed where that ball needed to be in the way that he took that run,\u201d Lalas said. \u201cAnd then the ability to cut it back and obviously to finish. So you saw the contrasts of what he does. It\u2019s not just one-dimensional, which is a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

His teammates say they noticed more than the finishing. McKennie said Balogun is drawn to the net, but he\u2019s also a striker willing to do the parts of the job that rarely make highlight reels.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s getting stuck into tackles and putting his body on the line,\u201d McKennie said. \u201cI feel like in the past a lot of people maybe have not made him out to be a player like that. But I think he just showed everyone today that he\u2019s willing to do the dirty work as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tyler Adams, the U.S. midfielder, described Balogun as \u201creally unique\u201d for a No. 9.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s obviously not huge, but he\u2019s extremely strong,\u201d Adams said, \u201cand I think a lot of center backs think they can kind of get in a grappling match with him. But he spins you and you\u2019re not catching him after that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Balogum celebrates a U.S. goal with teammate Tim Ream. The Americans return to action on Friday against Australia. (Lisi Niesner\/Reuters). (Lisi Niesner\/Reuters)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

If the Paraguay game was repayment, the Australia game offers something different: confirmation.<\/p>\n

Mauricio Pochettino was careful not to turn the opener into a coronation. The U.S. coach praised Balogun \u2014 but he also praised Pulisic, McKennie, Adams and nearly all of the starting 11 by name.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not only Balogun or different players who can perform,\u201d Pochettino said. \u201cI think the team was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

For years, the United States has had good players, promising players, hard-running players, versatile players. What it has not always had is a striker who could make the attack feel inevitable. Against Australia, the U.S. gets its next look at whether the missing piece is really in place.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, the overarching goal of a striker is to score goals, right?\u201d Lalas said. \u201cYou don\u2019t need me to tell you that. But he does so much more.\u201d<\/p>

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