“Concacaf qualifying is crazy. What happened these last two games is a microcosm of what U.S. Soccer and World Cup qualification has looked like since 1990. There’s ups, there’s downs. Wecome off a road trip, we got our butts handed to us, the media is on us … we win our home game and everything is rosy again until September. That’s like normal to us.”

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