Bruce Arena, along with a number of his former US Men’s National Team players, probably need want to return to Couva. It was there almost exactly two years ago where American soccer faced something of a watershed moment, where the USA after years and years of climbing came back down the other side of the mountain.
That defeat to Trinidad and Tobago, which saw the USA miss their first World Cup since 1986, is still frequently spoken about in American soccer circles such was the damage it did to the soccer psyche in the country. The effects of that one catastrophic result are still being felt.