Mexico Strike 'Oro' as the USMNT Live in the Shadow of Rapinoe and Co.
Sunday started and finished as many US citizens had predicted, their women's national team lifting their fourth World Cup and the men's team succumbing to their fiercest rivals. As the USWNT confirmed the notion of being the world's best on Sunday afternoon, their counterparts confirmed they are not even the best in their own continent. The defeat to Mexico underlined, again, the recent failings of the men's team which has become the butt of jokes for soccer fans across the States. Their failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia was a national disaster, and their exploits in the Gold Cup hardly convincing on the whole. The USMNT's humbling at Soldier Field, Chicago in front of a heavily pro-Mexico crowd further disenfranchised their following, as their women continue to stride on. During his seven months at the helm of the USMNT Gregg Berhalter has slowly but surely began to rebuild a side that crashed out of World Cup Qualifying in spectacular fashio