What Comes Next for the USMNT After Nations League Euphoria

Where do you go from that?

If you're the U.S. men's national team, the most literal answer is roughly 500 miles and one state to the west. While the mission for this current camp was accomplished with Sunday night's Concacaf Nations League final win over Mexico, the job isn't fully done. One more match remains before U.S. players go their separate ways—some to hard-earned vacations, others back to their MLS clubs—with a friendly vs. Costa Rica looming Wednesday night at Real Salt Lake's Rio Tinto Stadium.

The point of this window, as U.S. manager Gregg Berhalter has said multiple times, has been to mimic the cadence of World Cup qualifying. The May 30 friendly vs. Switzerland was meant to…