Ricardo Pepi has highlighted being snubbed from the United States' Olympic qualifying crew as a key turning factor in his career.
The US didn't make the games in Tokyo, completing 2nd in Group A but dropping 2-1 to Honduras within the semi-finals.
Pepi was named to Jason Kreis' initial roster, however it changed into Jesus Ferreira, Jonathan Lewis, Benji Michel, and Sebastian Soto who have been the forwards to make the final group for the qualifying competition. All 4 of them didn't find the net. If whatever, it may exercise session as a blessing in disguise, feeding Pepi's appetite for goals.
"It simply made me hungry," the FC Dallas striker said on Friday (thru ESPN). "It made me hungry to move on for the yr. To do accurate for my membership, do good for the countrywide crew and it was a turning factor, for positive, in my career."
As discovered through 90min, Pepi is the problem of excessive switch interest, with some of clubs from throughout Europe chasing his signature. The teenage striker considered in a transfer request to Dallas to attempt to circulate matters along.
As of yet, there was no movement. And for now, Pepi is focusing in this cutting-edge USMNT camp, in which he'll line up in a friendly in opposition to Bosnia and Herzegovina in a friendly on Saturday - simply his sixth cap considering asserting for the United States over Mexico.
"That second isn't but to be decided," Pepi said of his destiny at membership level. "I experience like I actually have a recreation here ahead of me and that's my principal awareness for the time being. I feel like we [have] were given to awareness on the game and anything happens is going to occur, however we've just got to be patient."
In his leap forward 2021 campaign, Pepi managed an excellent 13 dreams and assists in 24 starts for an FC Dallas side that completed manner down in eleventh within the overall standings. He's carried that shape thru to international stage scoring 3 goals and putting in place some other three thus far.
