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Bruce Arena’s USMNT: Analytics his way, teamwork, and a whole lot of players

Much like Jurgen Klinsmann, Bruce Arena set some time aside at the very beginning of his new USMNT tenure to provide a vision for what he wanted from the USMNT and how he would be running things in the first few months on the job. Similarly to Klinsmann, Arena thinks the U.S. should be able to consistently compete with and even beat the best teams in the world. Not incredibly surprising, but the paths the coaches take to that goal will be different.

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Bruce Arena is a grumpy grandpa figure in U.S. Soccer at this point, and advanced analytics have become one of his favorite punching bags over the past few years.