If you’re looking for reasons to be glad Bruce Arena is back in charge of the USA, there’s plenty of reasons - for example, tactical stability, or his established and increasingly transparent way of looking at the game, or his stout refusal to overlook in-form domestic talent.
Case in point: New Chicago Fire midfielder Dax McCarty, a guy who never seemed to get a serious look with the national side during the long slow decline of the Klinsmann years. Dax’s case for inclusion has continued to get stronger over the last several years, but despite consistently dominant play at a lynchpin position in a system tactically similar to the USA’s attempted style, he remained on the outside.