Gregg Berhalter Gone as USMNT HC

The Gregg Berhalter era is over, and this should not be a surprise to anyone who saw the dismal performance of the US Men's Soccer team at Copa America.

Berhalter is out as the manager of the U.S. men's national team after failing to advance past the group stage at this summer's Copa América tournament, U.S. Soccer announced Wednesday.

"I want to thank Gregg for his hard work and dedication to U.S. Soccer and our Men's National Team," said U.S. Soccer President Cindy Parlow Cone. "We are now focused on working with our Sporting Director Matt Crocker and leveraging his experience at the highest levels of the sport to ensure we find the right person to lead the USMNT into a new era of on-field success."

"Our tournament performance fell short of our expectations," the United States Soccer Federation said in a statement at the time. "We must do better. We will be conducting a comprehensive review of our performance in Copa America and how best to improve the team and results as we look towards the 2026 World Cup."

Sporting director Matt Crocker said Wednesday that the review considered not only the Copa América but the entirety of the past year. It was "not broad at all — specifically quite narrow," he said, and the conclusion was clear; "benchmarks" hadn't been met.

"There has been progress made," Crocker told a small group of reporters Wednesday as U.S. Soccer announced the decision. "But now is the time to turn that progress into winning."

"I'm 12 months into the program now. I've been in the environment," Crocker said Wednesday. "I think I'm a lot clearer and a lot more confident in what I see. ... I'm in a better place to have much more of a targeted search, where I'll be more inclined to go hard and go early with specific candidates that I feel meet the criteria that we're looking for."

Crocker and U.S. Soccer did not announce any interim coach.