USMNT past present and future

I was wanting to put this down before we played Mexico so it didn’t seem like a “hot take”. I’ve been watching the national team for close to 30 years and we’ve never had such a talented group coming through. We are very young and it will take a while to get up to speed but the talent is there. I’ll put coaching aside for this thread as I definitely think Gregg is not the answer as his tactical acumen is lacking imo. Onto my point........for this new, talented generation to hit the heights we’ve never seen before (past the quarterfinals; 1950 was a semifinal but contested by few nations) they have to have the desire and passion that previous (2002 in particular) USMNT had. Yes, the U.S sucked too with that same grit when we had the clueless Steve Sampson leading us but let’s please forget that asshat for this discussion.

Players like McBride, Heyduk, Joe-Max Moore, Stewart and Cobi Jones were not the most skillful players but those frickers would run through a brick wall for the U.S badge. It was imo an attitude to show the world that American players could succeed. Will these players have the passion those players had since the view has somewhat changed the way people view the USMNT. That passion and desire mixed with an organized as frick system carried us to the quarters and if not for a Frings handball on the line, that desire mixed with some skillful players (O’Brien, Reyna, Donovan) would have taken us to the semis.

Getting a better gaffer in the future will help but it will be interesting to see if the players show the same passion previous editions had to bring us further then we’ve ever seen in the modern game.