text:  It's been hot for a while, eh, as you and I have talked about before. That, you know, started around the 2022 World Cup, which wasn't a disaster, to be clear, but also wasn't a huge success. And so after this, there had been an inflection point about sort of whether to bring him back, which ultimately U.S. soccer decided to do amid some controversy. But the performance since then had just been, I think, just too disappointing, including this huge letdown at the summer's Copa America tournament.