U.S. males’s nationwide workforce striker Ricardo Pepi has joined Dutch Eredivisie membership Groningen on a season-long mortgage deal from Augsburg, the golf equipment confirmed Wednesday.
There was not anticipated to be an choice to make the switch everlasting included within the deal.
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Pepi, 19, solely joined Augsburg from FC Dallas in January in a $20 million deal that represented the best payment ever paid for a homegrown participant in Main League Soccer historical past.
Nonetheless, Pepi has struggled because the transfer and has but to attain in 16 appearances. He has appeared for simply 93 minutes to date this season for an Augsburg aspect that at the moment sits 14th within the Bundesliga, with three factors from its opening 4 matches.
DONE DEAL! ✍️
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Welkom in Groningen!
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The Texas native loved a breakthrough 12 months in 2021, scoring 13 targets in 31 MLS matches and incomes a call-up to the U.S. senior workforce. He made an instantaneous impression on the worldwide stage, recording a purpose and two assists on his USMNT debut towards Honduras in an important World Cup qualifier.
He has since amassed a document of three targets in 11 appearances,
Pepi’s lack of targets and enjoying time since transferring to the Bundesliga, although, have jeopardized his prospects of incomes a spot on head coach Gregg Berhalter’s U.S. roster for the 2022 World Cup, which begins in November.