USMNT Attacker Is The ‘New Firmino’ Klopp Needs

To say that Jesus Ferreira had a special season in 2021 may be an understatement. In most years, a player that scored eight goals and added in nine assists would have been in discussions for team MVP, if not somewhat in the running for league MVP. After a pretty tough 2020 campaign that saw him struggle to find his footing with just one goal and one assist, Ferreria regrouped and became one of the league’s best young players in the process.

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Jesus Ferreira stole the headlines yesterday with FOUR GOALS in a game against Grenada for the @USMNT.

How good can be become?

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— FootTheBall FC (@FootTheBallFC) June 12, 2022

After a languid 40-plus minutes against Grenada, Ferreira brought the evening and his World Cup prospects to life with three goals in 13 minutes on either side of intermission, followed by a late fourth.

This already was just about the least climactic sendoff possible, coming more than five months before the World Cup and against a team ranked 170th on the planet. Add a heat index that hovered around 97 degrees at kickoff – Austin, Texas, was warmer Friday night than it’s supposed to be in Qatar this November, and you had the makings of a match that would test just about anyone’s focus, fitness and resolve.

Fortunately for the American men, Jesús Ferreira has spent a lot of his life in Texas. As uncomfortable as U.S. strikers have looked in recent months, and as much pressure as Ferreira could have felt as November nears, neither the heat nor the scoring drought seemed to weigh on the 21-year-old.

So who is the young attacker from Texas that has grabbed the recent headlines and is he crucial to USMNT at the FIFA World Cup 2022?

Who is Jesus Ferreira?

Jesus Ferreira is a 21-year-old USMNT professional football player who plays as an attacker for MLS club FC Dallas and the United States national team. Jesús David Ferreira Castro was born in Santa Marta, Colombia on the 24th of December 2000. He is the son of former MLS MVP and Colombia international David Ferreira.

He joined the club’s youth side and progressed through the ranks before signing a homegrown contract in 2016. He scored his first professional goal on his debut in June 2017 against Real Salt Lake.

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