Timothy Weah is ready for a Lille breakout season, 'I feel like this is the year I take it up another notch'

Weah is finding his form with both Lille and the USMNT

Timothy Weah will likely play better matches for the United States men's national team than his 22 minute cameo against Jamaica in a World Cup qualifier last month. Though, there was certainly a lot to like when he replaced Brenden Aaronson in the second half of his side's 2-0 win in Austin. 

Gregg Berhalter, for one, liked what he saw. On the back of that performance, Weah would start the next two matches. In one of those game, against Costa Rica, he had the most decisive moment of his young USMNT career when he forced the deciding own goal to garner his team all three points. 

Perhaps even more importantly, there was a lot to like for his first coach and, he notes with no little affection, one of his toughest critics. "Ever since I was young my mom was my first coach," Weah says. "She's on me about everything. Mother's love. She's always on me. Even when I play well, she tells me that I still need to do this better, that better. She's kind of that pushing force that keeps me going. So shout out to mom. "