Josh Sargent affords himself a smile. The United States international striker may be about to achieve something few Norwich signings experience: an immediate benefit from the city’s geography.
“Maybe one hour,” says Sargent, with the US’s Europe-based players meeting in London for a group flight home to Nashville in Tennessee. That’s an hour more recovery time, then.
The 21-year-old cuts a relaxed figure in front of The Athletic, and you sense it would take a lot to fluster him. Our interview is taking place just a few weeks after his 9 million Premier League move from relegated Bundesliga side Werder Bremen and before the current international break.
“I mean, usually I’m pretty good with jet lag and recovery but, yeah, I’ve never had a three-game (international) break so maybe it’ll be a little different this time,” says Sargent.
“Josh’s tips for jet lag?! Drink a lot of water. That helps. Usually, I sleep a lot on the plane. I can sleep anywhere. Our national team also has a fly kit — they send you a package that tells you when to take this (sleeping pill), when to be in a room with lights on, when to turn all the lights off. They have blue-light glasses you can put on. They’re very helpful with it all.”
This will be a World Cup qualification campaign that everyone in the USA camp will be taking “very seriously”, given their failure to make Russia 2018 was their first absence from a World Cup finals since 1986.
It began on Thursday night with a goalless draw away to El...
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