If you think the U.S. team’s failure to qualify for the World Cup was devastating for the players, consider Rob Stone’s disappointment.
The Fox Sports broadcaster has been covering soccer for two decades and had already been selected to host the network’s wall-to-wall coverage of this summer’s tournament when its biggest attraction came up a goal short in the final qualifier in Trinidad, missing the event for the first time since 1986.
“Initially the blow was absolutely staggering,” Stone said. “I was aimlessly walking around Manhattan Beach looking for answers to life and not getting them.
The question now becomes how to measure that success.