- What's up GQ? I'm Christian Pulisic.
Today, I'm going undercover on the internet.
It's Actually Me.
"Is it Puli-sick or Puli-sitch?
As far as I know, CP pronounce his name Puli-sick.
So why does literally half of the English media
say Puli-sitch?"
Puli-sick is how I grew up and, and being in the States,
that's just how I'm used to it
and that's how I've always said it myself.
But Puli-sitch is technically the Croatian pronunciation
so that's why it is correct.
So I'm actually okay with both.
"Pulisic nicknames. Here's what I have.
The Hershey Hammer, The Hershey Hare, Pennsylvania Pele.
I enjoy the more common ones. Puli-god, Captain America.
What ones are your favorites?"
I don't know if I like any of those.
I'm pretty much used to Captain America at this point.
It's funny 'cause there's always other Captain Americas
to me so that's fine.
But I think we need a little bit more work
on a good nickname for sure.
"What is your opinion on the World Cup being
in winter this year disrupting this season?"
It might be a bit different,
but for me it's my first World Cup
so I'm just going with the flow.
I'm super excited for the World Cup,
whether it's in the winter, summer, fall, it doesn't matter.
So it's gonna be huge and I'm just thrilled
and I'm looking forward to it.
Let's check on Instagram.
"First time playing on the potrero?"
This was quite the game.
I think actually in warmups, it just started pouring rain
so it just was a disaster.
But we had a great time and we fought through it.
It's one of those memories. It's always fun.
I mean it's fun to have these experiences
and sort of the extreme weathers,
but I just like warm weather, to be honest.
"Where'd you cop that jacket?"
This is like a little like flannel look,
just kind of opened.
I don't know where I got that jacket.
I like a very classy look and I like to be quite simple.
I don't wear crazy colors normally or anything like that.
I just like simple. I like classy.
But I think good style says a lot about you.
Let's check Twitter.
"Why is Pulisic's Twitch name 'nuttyfigo10'?"
That's a good question actually.
My dad gave me that nickname from a young age
'cause I liked Figo as a player.
And nutty became my gamer tag in a way.
They just kind of mixed together at some point
and I just like that number, it's my number.
So that's my story.
"What is Pulisic's chess rating?"
I play mainly Blitz which is like three minute,
five minute online chess
and my rating's almost 1,350, which I'm proud of.
I've come a long way from being just a little 500
when I first started.
I want to get to 2000. That's my life goal.
"Why Pulisic dancing on Twitch right now?"
When was this?
Oh, this is when I was doing the thing with my brother.
So my brother streams on Twitch actually,
at NoiseOrdinance.
Definitely check him out. He's got some crazy streams.
He loves bumping his music. He DJs.
And I just hopped on one day 'cause I was home
and I was with my brother and yeah 'cause why not?
And I can dance whenever I want dance.
"Christian Pulisic is releasing a book?
I hope it's up for UK release as well as USA.
Then again I have quite a bit of experience
chasing down American books
thanks to being a fan of Misha Collins."
Yes, that is true.
Definitely a lot of question and answer stuff.
A lot of time that I put into to answering
and talking about, you know, my experiences
and my journey so far.
I think they will definitely learn a lot more
about the younger years of my life
that I don't necessarily talk to a lot.
There's a lot of information that dates way back.
"World Cup 2022. Red, white, and blue.
Pulisic to face off against teammates?"
USA and England."
That's gonna be a huge game.
I'm really looking forward to it.
I've played against England before
and played against these guys already.
So your relationship off the pitch never changes
'cause we're all good friends and we're close,
but at the end of the day, once the whistle blows,
you're on the field and you're just competing
so you kind of forget about it.
It's gonna be a good time for sure.
Onto TikTok.
"Okay Christian Hype House contender?"
Listen, these are things that we just need to delete.
These need to go in the archives.
You know, this was the lockdown times,
everyone was making TikToks.
We can just forget about this time.
Those two years we just forget about.
That's all I'm gonna say.
"You got horses in London? Or you back home?"
Yeah, that was back home.
I definitely don't have horses out in London,
but my family and especially my sister
has been big in horses most of her life
And they've sort of become a part of mine.
I'm still a little bit scared to ride them,
but I think they're cool animals.
So that's just back home in the States.
"Why is everyone talking about his shirt?
He wears it because he likes it and respects his old club."
Oh yeah, I remember when this was a thing.
I made a TikTok with my dog not thinking much of it,
just wearing my, you know, my former team's training shirt
that I still had.
Yeah, it's funny. It doesn't mean anything really.
I'm still extremely happy with the team I'm on now.
So I'm happy.
It looks like a Chelsea fan is realizing that,
so that's good.
And aw, Finley looks so cute. Little puppy Finley.
"My son said, 'Can you do a tutorial
on how to do that first part? Lol."
Tricks like this aren't gonna be extremely useful
when it comes to game time, obviously.
This is like something that I grew up
sort of like free-styling and doing stuff like that
just with some of my teammates in our free time.
So it's just something that I sometimes will just pick up
and do.
But again, this was in the two-year stretch
that we forget about so this is deleted as well.
Now onto Quora. I don't know what Quora is but.
"How far will the USA go in the World Cup in Qatar?
What are the odds that they will win the World Cup?"
Listen, I don't know what the odds are
or any of that kind of stuff.
We're going in there with the goal of winning the World Cup.
And we're going in there with the mentality to win.
Maybe we don't have the highest odds
and we're by no means favorites,
but we're gonna go in there
and we're gonna give everything we got and,
and hopefully make some Americans proud.
"Which of the three is better?
La Liga, English Premier League, or the Bundesliga?"
I think the English Premier League
is currently the best league in the world.
I think it has the highest level of teams overall for sure
and a lot of the best players in the world.
As far as the league, I think Bundesliga set me up very well
to come to the Premier League.
I think there's similarities, there's differences.
Yeah, it's put me in a good spot to be where I am now.
"Is Christian Pulisic better on the wing or in the middle?"
That's a good question.
There was a stretch where I did like playing
in the middle a lot
and there's been stretches where I like playing
on the wing a lot.
I think it has to do with, you know,
the way that the style of the team I'm playing with,
maybe who I'm playing against.
"How do transfers in the football industry work?
Who gets paid? What does 'player sold for free' mean?"
I always find this funny,
especially from an American point of view
because I feel like sports in America
do work quite differently than than they do,
you know, over in Europe.
It's just funny 'cause people ask me like
"How does this work in the NBA?
Like they just went and just got a trade,
like this trade and that, and trade this."
And it doesn't exactly work like that.
I'm not gonna be the best person
to give a whole explanation here, but that's all I can say.
I just find it funny.
Let's head over to Wikipedia.
"Outside of soccer, Pulisic is a fan of the New York Jets,
New York Rangers and Philadelphia 76ers."
That's pretty accurate. Those are my teams.
Philly's the one Pennsylvania team
that I just sort of kind of found a liking to.
And New York Rangers and New York Jets,
my dad's family being from New York,
they were huge fans of those teams grew up that way.
Rangers have been doing super well.
Jets are getting there.
Where I was from, half Eagles, half Steelers for sure.
So if you're not one of those,
you're kind of just an outcast.
But what can I do?
"On November 20th, 2018,
Pulisic became the youngest player
to captain the United States national team
in a friendly defeat to Italy.
Pulisic was 20 years and 63 days old."
It's all correct information.
Yeah, captaining my national team was a huge day for me.
At that time, we started to have a few young players
coming in the mix.
There was definitely a more experienced bunch of guys.
Clint Dempsey was one of my favorite players growing up.
Playing with Jozy Altidore. You know, Michael Bradley.
All right, let's see some YouTube comments.
I like YouTube. My favorite one.
"Wonder if CP has ever ventured into the UK hiphop,
maybe even as far as Drill or Grime."
I can't say I have at all.
That's the one thing I haven't got into
since being over in the UK.
But I'm always willing to listen to new things,
but I just haven't yet.
I'm into that kind of music.
And the country music is my other main genre
that I listen to for sure.
"I don't get why so many people are vitriolic
towards the word soccer.
It's just an excuse for people to be anti-American!
Some people call it soccer. Get over it!"
I don't understand either why people get so angry
'cause it's just,
if you say football and you're in America,
it means something else.
We don't have a choice. You just have to say it.
I call it football all the time 'cause I'm in England.
But yeah, when I'm in the States
and I'm speaking to an American person,
like I'm gonna call it soccer.
"Hey bro, I'm a huge fan.
I have a question.
Has anyone stepped on your toe before
and then it started to hurt really bad?
If so, can you tell me how to recover
because that happened to me today."
I love how innocent this question is.
Yeah, it happens a lot.
I mean if you looked at my toes now,
they're like both purple.
So it just happens.
If it's like right on your nail,
like sometimes I gotta drill a little hole in your nail,
let's some of the blood out.
Terrible experience.
But maybe that's what you need
'cause it keeps throbbing and throbbing.
Not fun.
That's enough internet for today.