Sporting News · Nov 21, 2016
Jurgen Klinsmann is out because he made U.S. program weaker than he found it
Five years. That's how long Sunil Gulati yearned for Jurgen Klinsmann to be his head coach and the man to steer U.S. Soccer to a new level as a program. He watched the charismatic Germany boss implement changes in the structure of German soccer that helped the nation return to powerhouse status after some uncertain years. Gulati convinced himself that, given the freedom and patience to revamp U.S. Soccer, Klinsmann might even do a better job than he did with Germany.
Not only did Klinsmann do a better worse job with the U.S. than he did with Germany, it can be argued that the U.S. team he was fired as coach from on Monday is in worse shape than the team he inherited in the summer of 2011.