USMNT boss Jurgen Klinsmann talks squad selection ahead of the United States' next round of World Cup Qualifying matches. Our first weekly update of American players abroad includes Lynden Gooch's Premier League debut for Sunderland. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- U.S. national team manager Jurgen Klinsmann has told ESPN FC in an exclusive interview that, with the team about halfway through the current World Cup cycle, he wishes more young players were pushing for spots. Klinsmann hailed the U.S.' highly respectable fourth place finish at the Copa America and said he was confident that his side would carry the momentum from that tournament into the last two matches of the current round of World Cup qualifying. On Friday, the U.S.