One of the less heralded, but more galling results of the U.S. men’s national team’s failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup is the simple, excruciating fact the team won’t play a meaningful game for two years. That’s a long, long time to stew in the juices of our failure.
But perhaps we have been given a minor reprieve, for into those juices has waded the sizable presence of Big Sam Allardyce, who has begun over the past few months angling for the vacant USMNT manager job.
With the attention of the U.S. soccer community turned to February’s presidential election, and (again, because it bears repeating) with no meaningful games to be played for literal years, the appointment of a new USMNT manager can, should and almost certainly will wait.