Are you still grieving over the US men’s national team missing out on the World Cup? That’s okay, it was a rough ride, and this one is going to sting for a long time - one suspects at least until the next round of qualification. But when you’re at your absolute lowest is the time for critical self-examination. That’s what Clint Dempsey thinks anyway, as he said after training with the Sounders.
"It's disappointing obviously for everybody. But maybe it's an opportunity now to look at youth development, to look at coaching, to look at style of play, and maybe it's one of those situations [where] you take a step back to [take] two forward.