When the United States Men’s National Team failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, it felt good to lash out at the people responsible. Sunil Gulati, certainly. Bruce Arena, even better. And most of all, the players on the field in Trinidad, the ones who put on such a confusing, lackadaisical display that the unequivocally worst team in the Hexagonal tournament could waltz to a victory with such little effective resistance. Many players were rightly blamed for their part in that game and other games over the course of qualification.
Front and center amongst this group were team captain Michael Bradley and veteran striker Jozy Altidore.