How Bradley Wright-Phillips passed the torch to the next face of RBNY

Bradley Wright-Phillips still recalls one of his first impressions of Red Bull New York star Julian Hall when he was coming up through the club’s academy. Hall was still with the club’s MLS Next Pro team playing against New York City FC’s developmental squad when Wright-Phillips remembers him coming into the match and “sprinting everywhere.” “I tell [then Red Bull II coach Ibrahim Sekagya], he’s gonna die,” the Red Bulls legend recalled to The Post in a phone conversation this week with a chuckle.“When you make your debut, you have so much adrenaline.

And I’m thinking, he just got on and started sprinting everywhere.After like five minutes, he was dead.” Wright-Phillips — the greatest goal scorer in Red Bulls history — has had a front-row view of Hall’s development into one of MLS’ top young players and now a promising star for the U.S.

men’s national team.The Red Bulls legend, who has worked with Red Bulls II since roughly 2023, worked with Hall to the point where the young footballer even gave him a shoutout during an interview on TNT after the USMNT’s win over Chile, when Hall scored his second of three national team goals during the window. Hall described Wright-Phillips as a “role model” for him and someone he viewed as having helped him reach “this place right now.” “He was someone that was there every single day for me,” Hall told The Post.

“Any questions I had, he was there.I mean, I feel like that was why he wanted to be there, to inspire the younger guys that were coming through.

He definitely inspired me and he definitely helped me get to this place right now.” The place that Hall is referring to has been a season for the Red Bulls where he forced his way into the starting lineup, usurping former Bayern Munich star Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, and scoring 10 goals this season for his club. He earned an MLS All-Star nod in the process and, after snapping a 12-game goal drought with the winning goal ...