The walls around Pratt & Whitney Stadium were covered with any number of slogans and references to U.S. Soccer's marketing push to focus on the future, appealing to U.S. national team fans' hopes of seeing a new generation emerge to lift the program out from rock bottom.
The slogan "The Future is Us" was unveiled last week, to coincide with the anniversary of the USMNT's failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. As cheesy as the mantra might be, the premise was reasonable enough. Focus on the future and the promising collection of talent in the pipeline and believe that the coming years will be much better than the painful 2017 and forgettable 2018.