No goalkeeper in U.S. soccer history played more games, won as often or started as many World Cup matches as Tim Howard, but he never played on a national team as good as the current one.
“This generation of players,” he said “is clearly the most talented group that this country has ever seen.”
Now all they have to do is prove it. This year, one of the busiest ever for a U.S. national team, will go a long way toward determining whether this golden generation is truly 24 carat or mostly fool’s gold.