The U.S. national team's failure to qualify for the World Cup was a dark day in American soccer, and the program has yet to truly emerge from it
If the anniversary of the U.S. national team's failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup feels like it came around incredibly quickly to U.S. fans, it is probably because many of those same fans have spent at least some part of the past year in lingering shock at a moment that has to be considered the worst in American soccer history.
The memories of that night are seared into the brains of the American soccer community.