The manager said his former side was too overconfident ahead of its fateful defeat at Trinidad & Tobago in October
Former U.S. men's national team manager Jurgen Klinsmann said the team's failure to make the 2018 World Cup has set the program back "by several years."
Klinsmann was in charge of the United States from 2011 until November 2016, when he was fired after his team lost its first two Hexagonal matches to Mexico and Costa Rica.
LA Galaxy manager Bruce Arena was installed as Klinsmann's successor, but his second stint in charge of the U.