In a normal year, U.S. Men’s National Team coach is a strange job. Your players are scattered around the globe at different clubs playing different systems, and every couple months or so, you get 10 days together to try to make some progress as a team.
This being 2020, with the complexities COVID has heaped on the sports world, that strange job is suddenly a lot tougher. Just ask USMNT coach Gregg Berhalter.
“It’s certainly taken a little bit of getting used to,” Berhalter told reporters on Monday. “I can imagine all that the guys have went through in the last 10 months, returning to play, returning to play in a safe environment, trying to foster relationships with social distancing, trying to hold meetings with social distancing.