A black cloud had descended over the U.S. national team heading into Friday’s World Cup qualifier with Honduras. Not even a little stunned to see a newly aggressive U.S. team score six times on eight shots on goal? He was brought back from the Galaxy last fall to revive a national team that had grown tentative, disorganized and confused. “He had a lot of positives,” Jovan Kirovski, a former national team player under Arena, said of Klinsmann. We had to come together and really, really find strength within each other.”Now the challenge becomes maintaining that momentum Tuesday in Panama, where the Americans face their first road test of Arena’s reunion tour.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 25, 2017 21:56 UTC