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This failure and complete embarrassment was more on US Soccer as a whole and not necessarily certain players or coaches. Player development has been beyond horrible for years and it finally bit them in the a$$. I guess that falls on Jurgen as the recent technical director. He was a train wreck as a coach but possibly even worse as a technical director over US Soccer as a whole. Instead of focusing on youth development, he focused on bringing in mercenaries for lack of a better word to fill the gaps.

Successful national teams should always have a core group of players in their prime years. This team was all aging vets and talented youth. Hardly any core players in their prime, mid 20s years. That where lack of youth development rears it’s ugly head when you put it off for years and years as it appears he did. Sure you’ll always find a diamond in the rough, like Pulisic, but you can’t expect that to occur over and over.

You could see this coming for years too as the youth US national teams failed to qualify for World Cups and Olympics. Those are the players that should be the core of the senior squad now and they are MIA cause they don’t exist.