Stoke City defender Geoff Cameron has claimed Jurgen Klinsmann would have got the United States to the 2018 FIFA World Cup and blamed the German's replacement, Bruce Arena, for the Americans' failure to qualify for Russia.
Arena replaced Klinsmann as United States manager late in 2016 but then oversaw a woeful qualifying campaign which ended with a shock 2-1 defeat to Trinidad and Tobago back in October.
The U.S. men's national team had needed only a draw to reach this summer's Russia tournament but fell to an embarrassing defeat, and Cameron did not hold back in his criticism of Arena, per the New York Times' Marc Stein:
"There's no doubt in my mind that, if Jurgen Klinsmann was still our head coach, we would have qualified for the World Cup.