The USMNT’s most-successful World Cup manager this millennium doesn’t think Gregg Berhalter had the current group prepared.
Bruce Arena, who twice managed the Americans from 1998-2006 and again from 2016-17, was critical of the team’s build-up to the World Cup in the aftermath of the USMNT’s“It’s also clear this team, in this cycle, didn’t have enough experiences against quality international teams to be fully ready for a World Cup,” Arena wroteMonday evening. “That’s mainly because of the pandemic, so it’s hard to toss blame, but it’s also a fact we played a bunch of Concacaf games that were way too easy.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the USMNT played friendlies against Concacaf sides El Salvador, Panama and Costa Rica – the last of which was the only team of the crop to qualify for the 2022 World Cup. USA did, however, sprinkle in a friendly with Wales, which similarly ended in a draw.Bruce Arena had two separate stints as USMNT manager.
Arena managed two World Cup sides, leading the 2002 team to the quarterfinals before losing to eventual runners-up Germany and then subsequently failing to get the 2006 squad out of the group stage. During Arena’s second stint in charge, he oversaw the squad that infamously failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup.
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