A month ago in the Rose Bowl, the U.S. national team lost the mother of all rivalry games with Mexico. Soccer federation president Sunil Gulati stuck to his guns and retained head coach andtechnical director Jurgen Klinsmann, and the second World Cup cycle with the former German international in charge officially starts in the city with perhaps the strongest soccer tradition inthe country.

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