The U.S. Soccer Federation has made some terrible decisions over the years, but we’re about to see its worst yet.
While much of the sports-watching fans in the U.S. were tuned in to watch the Cincinnati Bengals beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship, the United States Men’s National Team was busy embarrassing themselves against Canada behind the Paramount+ paywall. The 2-0 defeat to CONCACAF’s best story was a setback in World Cup Qualifying, sure, but matters are being made needlessly worse by U.S. Soccer’s own doing.
The USMNT has one more match remaining in this window and are currently in second place in the final round of qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup — the top three teams from CONCACAF automatically qualify for Qatar and a fourth-place team heads to a play-off. And thankfully, this match is at home against last-place Honduras. Yet, the USSF has managed to turn an easy (and crucial) three points into a dangerous uncertainty.
