New York Cosmos chairman Rocco B. Commisso joined the chorus of voices calling for drastic changes at the United States Soccer Federation after the men's national team failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
In a statement on the Cosmos' official site, Commisso wrote that failure speaks to larger structural issues from within the USSF and that the federation requires a change at the top:
"The blame must be placed squarely at the feet of U.S. Soccer's management, led by Sunil Gulati. The first step in ensuring that American soccer consistently performs at a level that spares all of us the kind of negative emotions generated by our National Team's failure to qualify for the World Cup is for Mr.