He won just enough without over nothing, although in some playing good passing football, won the United States to Turkey because it took World Cup plate, drew his lineage and his good combination between the middle and attack, perhaps his key game, that made him reach the final of the Confederations Cup after breaking unbeaten Spain.
Those results, those surprises launched him to be one of the selected candidates to enter the next World Cup podium, not only by how well they play but the quality of their individuality, more of them, playing in European leagues.