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U.S. soccer tries new path under Coach Gregg Berhalter, and ‘this is the starting point’

ORLANDO — The U.S. men’s national soccer team has been training this week a few exits down Interstate 4 from Disney World, which is fitting because its new coach, Gregg Berhalter, has ventured into a version of Tomorrowland.

Cynics might call it Fantasyland.

For a program still haunted by a failed World Cup qualifying campaign — one that cost two famous coaches their jobs, led to an interim guide for a year and caused the greatest embarrassment to the program since its founding a century ago — Berhalter is attempting to angle the team into the future.