![]() ![]() I hope I do because that would be really exciting,” Pablo said. “I still haven’t gotten to play against him. Until Nicaragua plays El Salvador, I’m with El Salvador whenever he’s playing 100%."īoth brothers long for the day when they’ll get to square off on the field for the countries they represent. “Whether he’s on another national team or not, I’m there to support him, and I’m his number one fan, he’s my number one fan. We’ve always been a family that supports 100% anything that we do,” Renato said. Now, he has a chance to suit up once again for El Salvador and do it in front of friends and family, with a limited number of tickets made available to the public.Īmong those watching and cheering him on will be someone who perhaps you’d think should be rooting for a Central American rival to fail but says he owes everything to Pablo: His brother Renato, a Nicaragua national team regular. In Iceland, where he plays for traditional power Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur (mercifully abbreviated to KR), a COVID outbreak in early November led the FA to scrap the rest of the season, with KR unable to get back in the Europa League places or try to win the cup. Punyed thought his 2020 was over from a playing perspective. And I face the U.S., the country I was born in! That’s not a game that can happen very often where all those elements come together. “I was born in Miami, I represent El Salvador, my father’s country, and I get to play a game in South Florida for the first time in my professional career. ![]() “It’s definitely, for all intents and purposes, a game made for me, right?” he said with a laugh when we Zoomed this weekend. If you know, you know, but it probably won’t stick in the memory for years to come.īut when the match was announced, Pablo Punyed couldn’t believe his luck. This week’s United States men’s national team friendly against El Salvador seems a bit random, the soccer version of a food truck pop-up.
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