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Who Is ... Folarin Balogun, the USA's Breakout World Cup Star?

With two goals in the U.S. men’s national team’s 4-1 win over Paraguay in the teams' 2026 FIFA World Cup opener on Friday night in Los Angeles, Folarin Balogun is well on his way to becoming a household name from coast to coast. Nearly 19 million Americans watched the 24-year-old New York native steal the show in his World Cup debut, making it the highest-rated USA men's match of all time. The moment exceeded Balogun’s wildest dreams; he’d been thinking about what Friday night might be like since he chose to represent the USA over England and Nigeria — the 5-foot-10 striker was raised in Londo...