The Gold Cup group stage is over. And with a team of mostly MLS players and fringe starters from elsewhere, the U.S. men's national team is perfect through three matches. It has scored eight goals and conceded just one. It beat the only team that beat Argentina at the last World Cup. And a bunch of new players are getting a lot of valuable competitive experience ahead of next summer's World Cup.
So, everyone is happy, right?
Right?
Yeah, not quite.
Thanks to an ongoing feud between the team's best players, the team's former players and the team's coach, the three wins haven't done much to shift the conversation.