2 weeks Ago By Zachary Pereles
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.. USMNT SUPPORTERS Gregg Berhalter is out as the United States Men's National Team coach after a brutally disappointing Copa America performance and two years ahead of the United States co-hosting the 2026 World Cup.
I loath to celebrate a firing -- these are real people with real human emotions, after all -- but I believe this was very much the right move, and most fellow USMNT supporters seem to agree. The United States has more talent than ever but rarely produced the results to match. During Berhalter's two-part tenure that dated back to late 2018 ( full timeline here ), the Stars and Stripes managed just five victories over top-20 opponents, four of which came against Mexico .
The Copa America failure -- the first time the USMNT failed to get out of a competition it hosted and the first time any host failed to get out of the tournament's group stage -- sealed his fate. Berhalter shouldered the blame in a statement following his firing. He hardly deserves all the blame -- Tim Weah 's foolish red card was a disaster -- but the USMNT had become stagnant since the 2022 World Cup, and this was the correct choice , Pardeep Cattry writes.
Cattry: "The last 10 months of work essentially erased the undeniable strides the team made during his first three years.
