Summary: On the way to Azteca after a deserved three points it is off to Mexico where another matchday and mini-verdict seems to await Jurgen Klinsmann who appears to be judged more on expectations than what is mostly within his control at this point during fourth round of CONCACAF qualification for Brazil 2014, along with recycled critiques from his days in Germany. Needless to say, the honeymoon period ended with that loss in Honduras and all the fallout that seems to have been collected in the messy aftermath of the first round in a ten match rock fight that will almost assuredly end up in qualification given that top three out of six teams should never be in doubt for neither the United States nor their Mexican neighbors to the South. At the center of this conversation is a national team in transition in reality cut against a series of perceptions where raising national program standards have their own expectations, and the stress between both of those realities is surely being felt in articles and rumours of tensions and chemistry problems between players, agents and other figures associated to the program. Where the problem arrives for both Jurgen Klinsmann and this team in its qualification for Brazil 2014 is the arrival of unconfirmed and anonymous sources who have both gravitated to a combination of less than acceptable results and a rapidly changing player pool that may or may not have been managed correctly given the circumstances as they present themselves today. Again, a major sticking point is the player pool for the United States that appears to have stagnated from the grass roots to those levels beneath the senior national team, expanding the player pool through foreign arrivals and whether or not this transition is paying the dividends of a lot of hard work for the current coaching staff.
