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Four months ago, Costa Rica tore apart Jurgen Klinsmann's Team USA 4-0. That ugly defeat cost the coach his job and left the USMNT bottom of their six-team 2018 World Cup qualifying group, "The Hex."
What we watched was a dismal performance marred by individual mistakes and collective apathy. It wasn't just that the Americans lost; it was that a team whose reputation was built on graft and togetherness looked splintered and disinterested.
"We don't see the heart that used to be so evident," beIN Sports commentator Phil Schoen said on the coverage. "It seems as though it has been ripped out of them.