A historically young U.S. team came together to secure a return to the World Cup—and it plans ‘to f---ing do some damage’ while in Qatar.
When team security notified Gregg Berhalter that four of his younger players didn’t return to their hotel until 4 a.m., the relatively new coach had a decision to make: He could either display his power or he could choose to share it.
Berhalter had been on the job for about seven months when the 2019 Concacaf Gold Cup, his first meaningful competition as U.S. men’s national team manager, began. The youth movement the Americans are riding to this month’s World Cup had barely started.