You'll continue to learn, build your technical skills, learn soccer knowledge, make good contacts with other people.
The thinking being, if you want to add some Continental superiority to your soccer — technical upgrades in passing and receiving, for starters — why not add some Continental players, and if you can't get someone from Spain (ranked No. 1 in the world), Germany (No. 3) or Italy (No. 4), a Belgian might do.
Last year, Klinsmann was named the technical director of U.S. Soccer.
Instead, U.S. Soccer youth technical director Claudio Reyna will direct the training sessions.
His technical qualities, and his soccer knowledge, are not in question.
So does Claudio Reyna, U.S. Soccer's technical director for youth development, who will probably be the next coach offered a seat on Klinsmann's bench.
In America, "the games are do or die," said Claudio Reyna, a former captain of the United States national team who is now the youth technical director for U.S. Soccer, the national governing body.
Technical advisers for international soccer's governing body said the United States bid needs stronger guarantees of federal government support and that the heat in the Qatari desert poses a health risk to players.
He's been criticized for his failure to develop a distinct playing style despite his pining for more technical development in US soccer, as well as his head-scratching squad selections – some of which left fans and players miffed.
He may even see it as a duty, given his contract extension, to realistically assess US prospects in this tournament and weigh them against the broader need for the technical side of US soccer to develop.
