The rooftop barbecue buzzed past midnight at the luxurious Marsa Malaz Kempinski, with the messy emotions of World Cup elimination wafting off into the Middle Eastern night. It was Dec. 4, the end of the road for the U.S men's national team in Qatar, and the end of a four-year journey that concluded with sadness but yielded pride. Players, families, coaches and staffers gathered at their team hotel 24 hours after their loss to the Netherlands. They fraternized and feasted, and commemorated a campaign that many at U.S. Soccer viewed as a successful one. Gregg Berhalter, the man steering it, retired to his room around 1 a.m. that night as a heavy favorite to retain his job as head coach.
. They met via Zoom shortly before recording, and quickly realized they spoke a common tongue. Their discussion ranged from Vicente Del Bosque to Friedrich Nietzsche to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and to concepts that would fly over Average Joe's head — but Berhalter was struck by the clarity of them.
Berhalter circled those last three words in his notes. He'd already been framing the USMNT's journey as exactly that — he opened every first meeting of every training camp by rallying players and staff around the shared goal of"" — but he'd never considered it with such conceptual precision.
“Dov fully supported me, and I was gonna fully support him,” Berhalter says when asked about his reasons for participating. “But it was also an opportunity to meet a lot of interesting people, and learn from the other guests.”When they spoke on Dec. 5, there was a part of Berhalter, the emotionally drained and wounded part, that just wanted to get home. He had a World Cup to digest and, before long, a future to plot — not to mention aBut he also had a commitment.
Then, for most of the day, he became a participant. He took in a lunch “masterclass” taught by former Air Force Brig. Gen. Dana Born. He reconnected with a couple old acquaintances and met new ones. He was in his element. “On Dec. 6,” Seidman says, “he was there as a genuine member of the HOW community.”
Berhalter, unaware of the apparent breakdown in communication — Seidman and the HOW Institute declined to comment on how, exactly, it occurred — spoke with his host for 12 minutes about a range of topics that jibed with the. In Minute 13, Seidman called on a former NFL coach in the audience to contribute to the discussion. In Minute 19, Seidman said,"so, we are out of time for this session," but he went to one more sports executive in the audience for a comment anyway.
, when asked generally about"regrets" or things he wishes he'd handled differently, that,"if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't have told that story."
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