U.S. pals McKennie and Adams mark Leeds reunion with heartwarming throwback photo

On Monday, United States midfielder Weston McKennie completed a indebtedness determination from Juventus to Premier League nine Leeds United, wherever he'll play with chap U.S. internationals Brenden Aaronson and Tyler Adams nether an American coach, Jesse Marsch. For McKennie and Adams, however, it's a reunion of 2 teammates who spell mode back.

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The brace person known each different since they were 14 years old, having played unneurotic astatine assorted levels of the U.S. nationalist younker teams, and they started alongside each different successful each 4 of the USMNT's matches astatine the 2022 World Cup.

"Honestly, my full determination was based connected if I acceptable successful the strategy oregon not and tin I thrive determination and tin I beryllium myself and play my benignant of football? But evidently it was similar a cherry connected apical of the barroom having them [Adams and Aaronson] present arsenic well," McKennie told ESPN connected Monday aft completing his determination to Elland Road. "Just to beryllium capable to play with Tyler and Brenden for nine and for state makes it a batch easier to settee in."

To observe their reunion, Adams posted a photograph connected Instagram of him welcoming his caller teammate to Leeds, and different 1 of them unneurotic arsenic teenagers erstwhile they were moving their mode up the shot ranks.

Sharing the representation connected his ain Instagram story, McKennie commented: "Haha been a agelong clip coming."

Adams amazed McKennie astatine his Leeds United unveiling, sneaking up down his pal arsenic helium addressed the media. The 2 shared a laugh, a handshake and a affable hug successful what is possibly a foreshadowing of the midfield concern that volition instrumentality implicit Elland Road successful the 2nd fractional of the Premier League season.

😂 "He had thing to bash with my decision!" Weston chats to Tyler... pic.twitter.com/nD52jee3s6

And for a due welcome, Adams took the honors of conducting his chap compatriot's archetypal interrogation for the club's societal media channels. In the mediate of the laughs and jokes determination were immoderate much superior questions, specified arsenic which relation McKennie likes to play, however it feels to beryllium a Leeds subordinate and what it means to play successful the Premier League.

"You had thing to bash with my decision," McKennie joked erstwhile asked by Adams astir his engagement successful his determination to Leeds, earlier adding: "Obviously, there's a large American enactment strategy here, that makes it casual to acceptable in."

The 2 ended the interrogation by pledging to effort a section delicacy, the Yorkshire pudding wrap, for the archetypal clip unneurotic to genuinely ingratiate McKennie into beingness successful Leeds.