is the current technical direction.

They've implemented a whole sub-institution around trying to define and promote a single American "style of play." But cooking something like that up in a laboratory just doesn't work. A broadly adopted playing style has to come about organically, starting at the grassroots level.

US Soccer is following the temptation to try and reform the grassroots from the top down, and I think that's destined to fail. For all of its flaws (and there are many) the bottom of the pyramid will always dictate what things look like at the top. You'll never find stability trying to invert that relationship. The pressing, heavily directional 4-3-3 style is a failure at every level of the USSF right now. We simply don't have the right players for it and I don't believe we ever will. It's time to scrub it and move on.