Iran coach Carlos Queiroz knows the U.S. and its soccer culture just about as well as any opposing manager could.
, while a draw would be enough to see Team Melli through.
Not long after, the U.S. Soccer Federation launched Project 2010, an ambitious big-picture plan to orient multiple levels of the sport towards the pursuit of excellence in time to compete for the trophy at that year's World Cup. Its general outline was released just before France 1998, where the USMNT's woebegone last-place performance delivered a painful reality check.wasn't exactly implemented in full. Yet its concepts helped lay the groundwork for innovations like the U.S. Soccer Development Academy youth league, upgraded coaching education structures and a national talent scouting network.
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