AMERICA TAKES ITS SHOT

This Issue Features Four Unique Covers

YUNUS MUSAH About to turn 20, the midfielder

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2015 “From California to Maine, activists are eyeing

Make Art, Not War

GETTY BORODYANKA, UKRAINE Spectators view graffiti art created

‘WE CAN WIN THE WORLD CUP’

MIDFIELDER WESTON MCKENNIE HAS HIGH HOPES FOR THE U.S. TEAM IN QATAR—AND THEIR MARK ON SOCCER’S FUTURE IN AMERICA

‘I WANT TO INSPIRE GENERATIONS AT THE QATAR WORLD CUP’

MLS YOUNG PLAYER OF THE YEAR JESÚS FERREIRA HOPES TO BE THE KIND OF LEADER ASPIRING SOCCER PLAYERS LOOK UP TO

‘I TREAT EVERY GAME LIKE A WORLD CUP FINAL’

GOALKEEPER MATT TURNER IS KEEN TO SHOW THE U.S. TEAM DESERVES RESPECT AND HELP IGNITE A LO VE OF THE GAME AT HOME

‘THE U.S. MEN’S TEAM IS FEARLESS’

RISING STAR YUNUS MUSAH IS EAGER TO SHOW THE WORLD WHAT THE YOUNG U.S. TEAM IS MADE OF—THEN TOP IT IN 2026

‘QATAR 2022 IS JUST THE START FOR AMERICAN SOCCER’

U.S. PLAYE RS ARE VIEWED AROUND THE WORLD HEAD COACH GREGG BERHALTER HOPES HIS YOUNG TEAM CAN HELP CHANGE THE WAY

‘WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN A WORLD CUP ISN’T WHAT PEOPLE EXPECT’

TWO-TIME U.S. WOMEN’S TEAM CHAMPION ALEX MORGAN ON THE FOCUS AND MENTAL STAMINA NEEDED FOR VICTORY

‘I COULD LOSE MY BEST U.S. PLAYER TITLE AT THIS WORLD CUP’

RENOWNED FORMER PLAYER LANDON DONOVAN, VETERAN OF THREE WORLD CUPS, OFFERS A FRANK ASSESSMENT OF THE U.S. TEAM AND SOME WORDS OF ADVICE

‘BEING PART OF THE U.S. SQUAD WASN’T ALWAYS EASY’

SOCCER HALL OF FAMER COBI JONES WEIGHS IN ON THE EXTRAORDINARY EVOLUTION OF THE SPORT IN AMERICA SINCE HIS PLAYER DAYS

‘I MISS THE PRESSURE AND PURPOSE OF SOCCER’

ENGLISH FOOTBALL LEGEND MICHAEL OWEN TALKS ABOUT THE SWEET ADRENALINE RUSH OF SCORING GOALS —AND HOW THE WORLD CUP CHANGED HIS LIFE

‘MY WORLD CUP HAT TRICK IN ‘66 CHANGED MY LIFE’

SING ULAR RECORD HE’S HELD FOR SIX DECADES S IR GEOFFREY HURST LOOKS BACK ON THE LEGENDARY ENGLISH FOOTBALLER

Books for Anyone on Your List

Newsweek’s staff picks for best books of 2022 to give others…or pick up for yourself

Fiction

“There have been many iterations of her.” ▸

Nonfiction

I Kissed Shara Wheeler By Casey McQuiston WEDNESDAY

Christina Ricci

RARELY DOES A PERFORMANCE, LET ALONE one by