USA Soccer

The U.S. soccer team was eliminated from the World Cup 2-1 by Ghana on Saturday in the round of 16, that's the same outcome as the 2006 World Cup.  Honestly, it's where I expected them to finish, that doesn't mean that I'm happy with the outcome, they had every chance to advance further.  They gave up way too many early goals and as a result spent way too much time trying to come from behind.  A lucky goal resulted in a tie with England in game one, they were robbed of a win against Slovenia in game 2 and had to settle for a tie (still, it was Slovenia), they then scored in extra time against Algeria (the 30th ranked team in the world) to salvage a trip to the knockout round.  In 4 games they had the lead for a grand total of  2 minutes (the extra time against Algeria).  USA soccer has come a long way and you can see small incremental improvement over the years (they did win their group after all) still I'm not sure that's good enough.  I guess the question now becomes how do we take that next step?  I think they need to take a close look at the coach, Bob Bradley really didn't elevate them to that next level, if there is somebody out there that is worthy of the job (I really have no idea who that would be, maybe Jurgen Klinsmann) perhaps it is time for a fresh approach.  Apparently U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati has some similar thoughts, see this link for more.