It doesn’t take a soccer aficionado to understand that a coach should not only be in the moment but should be encouraging his team to do the same. Pick a cliché: Be where your feet are. Control the controllables. Whatever.
Yet here was Gregg Berhalter, in the final appearance of what has to be considered a failed second stanza as coach of the U.S. men’s national team, telling his players the score of a concurrent match. Perhaps, with Uruguay setting up a free kick, the instructions might have been to defend smartly and solidly, to be present in the second half of their final group stage match in Copa América.