The backlash was instantaneous.
The moment that the U.S. men’s soccer team completed its loss to Trinidad and Tobago, the worst team in CONCACAF, and unforgivingly failed to advance out of the most forgiving region in World Cup qualifying, the howls began.
Loud and surly.
There’s no sugarcoating: This was a disaster of the first order for men’s soccer in this country. The World Cup, the great quadrennial lure of new fandom, will take place in Russia next year with no American squad for our country to rally behind. This will have financial repercussions for the U.