“It was certainly a massive failure, as it was for Italy not to qualify, for example. It is important for U.S. as a big country to qualify. Carlos will have this challenge to make sure the nationalteam qualifies. It’s more important — it is not easy — to bring in a football culture, a soccer culture, in America, from the youth and training of players to the league, the league system thatexists in the United States with the closed system. There are many challenges that have to be tackled, and Carlos with the experience and team he has is certainly the man who will look into it.”

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