Last week, in response to word that the US Soccer Federation was interested in re-signing men's head coach Gregg Berhalter following a run to the World Cup round of 16, the general world soccer media, and a lot of the sport's more casual American fans, shrugged their respective shoulders and said, "Yeah, that makes sense."
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Under Berhalter the US met their general goals in this World Cup cycle -- despite an extreme youth movement, they both qualified for the competition and went unbeaten in group play to advance to the knockout rounds, where they lost to the Netherlands.