A below strength USMNT were upset in the Gold Cup. But the important developments are happening elsewhere as 2026 preparations step up
The Gold Cup, the biennial money-spinner for Concacaf, inspires a very different mood around the US men’s national team compared with the World Cup. Superiority, not inferiority, dominates the conversation.
After all the hand-wringing from the inadequacies on display during the round-of-16 loss to the Netherlands in Qatar, here’s a tournament that prompts fretting if the Americans don’t win it every time, given their status as perennial hosts and the low caliber of most of their opponents.
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