As the fall out from the most recent failure by the US Men to live up to expectations and have another class of third and fourth pick players reach the Olympics continues to be discussed, it’s time to perhaps scrutinize the narratives discussing it. Whose fault is it? The players, the coach, the federation, MLS, SUM, the media? Yes.
There is clearly plenty of blame to go around. For one thing, there’s US Soccer Federation which never learned the lessons from the failure to reach the 2018 World Cup and made real and meaningful reforms to how it goes about developing players for the USMNT.