Three days after losing to Jamaica in the Gold Cup semifinals, the United States lost the third place game against Panama on penalties. This Gold Cup was really, really awful.
Jurgen Klinsmann thinks the USMNT is just fine after worst Gold Cup ever
Stay the course.
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This is the 2nd time in 13 Gold Cup tournaments that the USA has failed to medal. Last was 15 years ago.
— Brian Straus (@BrianStraus) July 25, 2015 #USMNT has gone winless in consecutive Gold Cup games for the first time ever.
— Paul Carr (@PCarrESPN) July 25, 2015 But even though the Gold Cup is historically really easy for the United States until the semifinals and this is their worst performance ever, Klinsmann thinks his team did really well to get out of their group!
JK: We did well to get through the group, get through the quarters but Wednesday's game kind of took the wind out. #USMNT
— U.S. Soccer (@ussoccer) July 25, 2015 It’s fine, this is a process.
JK: Our goal is to go further in the next World Cup than we did in Brazil. This is a working process. This team will lean and get better.
— U.S. Soccer (@ussoccer) July 25, 2015 And things will get better.
JK: I think we could have won this tournament. We didn't. We take our lessons from there and move on. #USMNT
— U.S. Soccer (@ussoccer) July 25, 2015 OK, Jurgen, what lessons did you learn from this tournament?
Jurgen on team he'll choose for Confed Cup playoff: "It won’t be totally different. It will be very similar."
— Brian Straus (@BrianStraus) July 25, 2015 Oh, none. Cool. Looking forward to seeing more of these guys!
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