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Gregg Berhalter won’t electrify U.S. soccer fans, but he could be just what USMNT needs

NEW YORK — If U.S. soccer fans were hoping for a swashbuckling coach to shake up the damaged men’s national program, an outsider to introduce a magic formula tested overseas and immediately exorcise the post-traumatic stress of missing the World Cup, Gregg Berhalter is not their man.

He doesn’t have Jurgen Klinsmann’s gung-ho personality or Bruce Arena’s aura. He hasn’t coached in the Premier League or World Cup. He won’t electrify the masses.

He won’t pilot a helicopter to practice, like Klinsmann did.

Berhalter, introduced Tuesday at a news conference a little down the Hudson from his hometown of Tenafly, N.