Gregg Berhalter is out as U.S. men’s national soccer team coach — one year after his surprising reappointment, nine days after the Copa América flop and less than two years before the next World Cup.
The U.S. Soccer Federation announced Wednesday that Berhalter had been fired and sporting director Matt Crocker is leading the search for a replacement. Berhalter had more than two years left on his contract but paid the price for the team’s disappointing performance this summer.
“At the senior level, we’ve got to win,” Crocker told reporters. “We know winning is the yardstick, and we didn’t do that.