Johnson, Garza and more - Ranking the USA's left-back depth chart

Fabian Johnson gives the U.S. national team a top-notch left back option, but who else can Bruce Arena call upon at the troublesome position?

"Anybody can play left back."

That throwaway line from Jurgen Klinsmann, said with a smile just before a World Cup qualifier in June 2012, seemed to dismiss the importance of the position for the U.S. national team. It wasn't so much that Klinsmann was swimming in options, but he almost sounded like a coach resigned to the reality that he just didn't have many good natural left backs to work with.

Klinsmann's five years in charge of the U.S. saw a variety of left back experiments. Some were head scratchers, like Jose Torres, while others served their…