The appointment of Mauricio Pochettino as the new US men's head coach is exciting, bold and appears close to a best-case scenario given the middling status of the USMNT in world football and the shiny resume of a tactician who's successfully managed in the English Premier League, La Liga and Ligue 1.
After more than 70 fixtures in charge across more than four years, about two-thirds of them victories, a feeling took root that the squad was stagnating and needed a fresh voice.
Eurosnobs who longed for a more illustrious and magnetic figure to take charge of a roster that increasingly sourced its key players from leading leagues overseas.
Now the issue, after the group stage exit in this summer's Copa America that cost Berhalter his job, is that the US don't look capable of progressing deep into tournaments.
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