A year after seemingly giving up on a future with the U.S. national team, Benny Feilhaber is back in the fold after Jurgen Klinsmann's departure.
CARSON, California — Almost exactly a year after he appeared to light a match and torch his chances of ever again playing for the U.S. national team, Benny Feilhaber was on the field, wearing the familiar U.S. colors, smiling and enjoying an opportunity he had essentially given up on.
The U.S. January camp began last week and Feilhaber was back in a setting he knew all too well, but one he didn't figure to be in again after going after then-U.