The US men’s soccer team has always employed stars born or brought up overseas – so why the sudden antipathy to such players?
The US men’s national soccer team, currently in its annual January training camp before a friendly against Serbia on Sunday, once again finds itself at the dawn of a new era. Jürgen Klinsmann – who one suspects would have been willing to take credit for the sun rising at dawn each day – is no longer the national team coach; Bruce Arena is. Klinsmann’s claim that he had fundamentally revolutionized American soccer makes it harder to move on from his tenure. His legacy, in large part, is that every issue is now a even more fraught.
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