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Anytime anyone associated with Canada genuinely feels bad for the United States – especially when it comes to sports – you know something is catastrophically wrong. In this particular instance, we have Canada coach Jesse Marsch voicing concerns about the U.S. men’s national team, which is fair given that the USMNT is currently the laughingstock of international soccer.

Marsch is in a unique circumstance given that he is a former USMNT player himself, and given that he’s American, he understandably pulls for the U.S. as long as his Canada side isn’t the opponent. 

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This still doesn’t make it right that Canada – a country that has won absolutely nothing in men’s soccer and is barely a Top 50 team in the world – is talking about the U.S. like it’s their little brother.

With Canada advancing to the knockout round of Copa America and the USMNT crashing and burning in epic fashion, Marsch took it upon himself to share his concerns about the U.S.

“I’d like to say that I’m only focused on what we’re doing here in Canada, but obviously I’m paying attention to the U.S. men’s national team as I always do, and like you, I’m sad,” Marsch said. “I’m disappointed with the performances, the lack of discipline. There are a lot of things that I think we’ve tried to embody about the game in the U.S., and we’ve always believed in this group of players.”

“I’m not there every day, so I don’t have my finger on the pulse of what’s going on, but it’s certainly not what we expected coming into this tournament,” Marsch continued.

Marsch referring to the USMNT as “we” clearly shows he still supports the U.S. side despite being the manager of one of its rivals, which is almost an insult to injury when you have a manager paid by a country to be better than the U.S. essentially admitting they wished the team was better.

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Following its embarrassing exit from Copa America, the vast majority of U.S. soccer fans are on board with the idea of firing manager Gregg Berhalter. 

Berhalter’s contract expired following the 2022 World Cup, and the U.S. soccer federation had every reason to let him walk, yet after a far-too-long interviewing period he was brought back only to fail yet again. Marsch, who has experience coaching in both the Bundesliga and Premier League, was passed over during the USMNT’s most recent hiring period.