Haji Wright

Wright is one of those late-blooming American forwards who took the winding European road rather than the MLS shortcut, and it has paid off. His World Cup goal against the Netherlands in 2022, an audacious flicked finish, was the kind of improvised moment that made you sit up and wonder what his ceiling really is. As a tall, technical target striker he gives the US national team a profile they have historically lacked, and his move to the Premier League with Coventry's promotion picture and beyond shows real ambition. I think he is a genuinely intriguing piece of the next American soccer generation.

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Haji Wright (born March 27, 1998) is an American professional soccer player and forward from Los Angeles, California. After developing in Europe, he became a regular goal-scorer and earned call-ups to the United States men's national team. He notably scored for the USMNT at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar and has played club football across Germany, Turkey, and England.

Name (English)

Haji Wright

Name (Japanese)

ハジ・ライト

Reading

はじ・らいと

Born

March 27, 1998 (age 28)

Origin

Los Angeles, California, United States

Height

191 cm

Occupation

Soccer player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Tiger

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haji%20Wright
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19787021

Tags

• From California
• Soccer player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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