I wonder how many people still remember Ricardo Pepi’s name. The 20-year-old player has been playing in the Europa League for more than a year. But his growth was not smooth.
Pepi started playing in the American professional league at the age of 16. In 2021, he scored 13 goals and sent 2 assists in the league, when Pepi was only 18 years old. His outstanding performance quickly attracted the attention of European giants. Pepi made his debut against Honduras in September 2021, showing his unique talent, scoring 1 goal and assisting 2 times.

He joined augsburg in 2022 with a price of 16.36 million euros, which set a record for the team. His Bundesliga friends all know what this means to the team. This is definitely the amount of blood that an ordinary team like augsburg has to pour. But Pepi is either too young or too inexperienced, and has never been the main player in augsburg.

So far, he has played 16 times for the team, playing only 582 minutes, without scoring or assisting. The team was very disappointed with his performance. Augsburg finally decided to send him out for training. It is said that he can go to Holland to get back on his feet or start a new career without playing in the Bundesliga, but Pepi’s bad luck soon led to the team’s demotion.

After signing Domirovich this season, Pepi’s position in the club became even more embarrassing, and he clearly realized that it would be difficult for him to compete with his opponents. In the end, augsburg’s first priority is to survive.
He was loaned to Groningen this season, but missed the first five rounds of the league because he was late. However, although he didn’t run, he scored 13 goals and 3 assists. Groningen is not in good form this season, and it’s a pity that they were relegated so early. After 33 years in Holland, the team was finally relegated. This rare spectacle for thousands of years has finally been met by Americans.

In the first four quarters after joining, he scored four goals and assisted once, but the team only scored three goals in these four games. Despite a good start, Pepi didn’t score many goals in the second half of the league, which directly affected the team’s goal efficiency.
However, despite his poor performance in the Dutch league, he was re-elected to the American national team in March this year, playing against Granada and El Salvador successively, and scored three goals in those two games. And the national team won in a row. He is still regarded as an important member of the national team. After all, he is only 20 years old, and the next World Cup will be the mainstay.
