Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Column: New coach, but US soccer still running in place (The Associated Press)

FILE - In this June 12, 2002, file photo, Bruce Arena, head coach of the U.S soccer team, addresses a questions during a news conference at the team's hotel in Seoul, South Korea, in advance of a World Cup match against Poland. Arena is returning to coach the U.S. national team, a decade after he was fired. The winningest coach in American national team history, Arena took over Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016, one day after Jurgen Klinsmann was fired. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

Jurgen Klinsmann's hiring five years ago was supposed to make America a great soccer nation. For all the initiatives and money that's been poured into the game over the last three decades, from kids' recreational programs to colleges to Major League Soccer, we still haven't produced even one field player good enough to crack the starting lineup for traditional powers like Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Argentina and Brazil.


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