Viper, the coaching dilemma has been a US issue for decades. With each new President of US soccer a new "plan" comes in but in a country like ours with so many sporting options, its hard to get the best talent at a young age and just have them focus on soccer particularly on the male side. For Women's soccer we have the best development in the world and its reflected in the number one ranking and last two WC wins. The development of academies for male soccer through the MLS teams is helping but the USA is not even in the same universe when it comes to development of the top talent that exists in Europe and South America on the men's side.
As for coaching at the top, Berhalter is a good not great coach. To give him credit, in the last 24 months the USA has won the Concacaf Nations League Tournament, won the Gold Cup, qualified for the World Cup, and won 3 of the last 4 games against Mexico in open competition (i.e. not friendlies) and gotten a draw at Azteca in the fourth one. But that was against the worst Mexican side in memory so its hard to know whether the run of dominance against our biggest rival is a sign of US progress or Mexican decline.
I do not expect a change and for continuity its probably a good thing. If the US did decide to go in a different direction, the problem is that all the great coaches who might be available are retreads from other associations, expensive, not American (the Klinsmann experiment really left a bad taste in US soccer about "foreign coaches" because they are more than willing to criticize MLS and tell players to go play overseas), and last but not least they are willing to play systems that aren't "fun" to watch to win games. I would love to go get Jesse Marsch from Leeds but unless he gets fired there is no way he leaves the EPL. The list of American replacements is almost nil after Marsch and maybe Cherundolo at LAFC and even Cherundolo needs a few more years in MLS managing and maybe even his own stint in Europe as a manager before he is national team ready.
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