If Bruce Arena is anything, he is pragmatic. In a roundtable with a group of reporters on Tuesday in New York, the new U.S. national team coach said his priority was “getting through 2017,”which means getting through World Cup 2018 qualifying and advancing to the finals. With less than four months before his first Hexagonal match, he reiterated that there’s not a time for experimentingand any experimenting will have to be done at the January camp. Here are some key issues he’ll need to address.
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