All of this sucks.

The 2022 World Cup is built on the backs of petroleum and slave labor, so the US should boycott it anyway and neatly avoid another qualifying embarrassment.  Problem solved.

USSF seems intent on wasting the international career of a generational player. If I were Pulisic, I’d be considering my options with Croatia. 

If all it says is “2022 World Cup Champs”, then it is not premature, as some country WILL win the World Cup, and you can fill in the blank appropriately. If, however, it identifies the US as 2022 champions, that thing is a dishrag.

I cant say I’ve ever heard of such things as a GM or sporting director of a national team, let alone a COO or CEO. You play 9 or 10 matches a year! You have the federation board, a manager and that’s it. Sounds like a bad case of Jobs For The Boys.

+1 American Exceptionalism which is currently +1.32 Canadian...

I mean, I think your criticism is fair, but at the same time, Canada hadn’t scored a goal against USA in 12 years, so it’s not like the mentality comes from nowhere. 

Wait there was a USMNT game last night?

Look, Trubisky has only been in this system for a year....sorry wrong thread. 

But Berhalter’s got a system for fucking that football!

But c’mon, this is Canada.

“Bet you can’t guess the US player who lost the ball leading to Canada’s first goal”

Somehow, hiring the guy whose greatest achievement was once attaining the second-best regular season record in the Eastern Conference of MLS hasn’t worked out.

“Soory we beat you, eh?”

Watching the team try to form some sort of coherent offensive strategy last night was like watching a monkey try to fuck a football. At a basic level you understand what it’s trying to do, but in the end it’s just confusion and embarrassment for everything involved. 

The last two years have been incredibly painful, almost solely because there’s been no signs pointing to anything but constant wheel-spinning. Berhalter has absolutely no ambition to be experimental at all, and like you said in the beginning of the piece, it’s making what was a promising youth movement regress in…

And just to rub it in, Team Canada celebrated both of their goals in a manner consistent with the stated values of not rubbing it in against an overmatched opponent.  

with no guarantee that it won’t suffer the same fate as the last qualification cycle.

I look forward to this being the first porno featured on “How Did This Get Made??”.

It could be worse. The full version was, “What, you’re no longer down with this dominant, prominent, malcontent, nonevent, rubber cement, breach of trust with fraudulent intent pussy?”