It's been six years since that day, that infamous day. Players, coaches, executives, everyone... many have come and gone. Still, all these years later, despite all the good that's happened, that day still matters to those who follow the U.S. men's national team.
Trinidad & Tobago still means something. The U.S. has gone on to bigger and better things, of course, having buried the 2018 World Cup demons with their run to the 2022 knockout stages. A group of rising stars has taken control of the team, ushering the U.S. into a new era, one brighter than any that preceded it.
Still, there's still that little hint of something. As the USMNT prepares to face T&T this week with a spot in the 2024 Copa America on the line, it's hard not to think about 2018. The questions are inevitable: all these years later, do the current USMNT players feel that something?
"It's largely a different group that was part of that game," midfielder Cristian Roldan said ahead of a match against T&T at the Gold Cup this summer. "We've done a pretty good job to move past that. It's a new group and we have new goals, new objectives. I don't think it plays too much of a role in how we prepare for the game."
Roldan is right. Of the USMNT players to play in Couva that fateful night, only three went to the World Cup in 2022. It really has been a changing of the guard.
But what happened to the old guard after Couva? GOAL takes a look back at the players that were there on that night and where they all ended up.
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