Both the U.S. men’s and women’s national soccer teams will gather in Carson, Calif., this week for their annual winter training camps. While the former enters an era of self-inspection and reconstruction in the wake of catastrophic results last fall, the latter will begin work to avoid a similar fate this fall.
It’s been three months since the lowest point in the men’s team’s history, an inexcusable defeat in Trinidad and Tobago that cost a World Cup berth for the first time in 32 years, cost Bruce Arena his coaching job and provoked questions about how the U.