BREAKING NEWSUSA dumped out of Copa America! Woeful 1-0 defeat to Uruguay seals group-stage exit and ramps up calls for Gregg Berhalter to be FIRED

A day of reckoning for Gregg Berhalter and his United States team began with torrential rainfall and warnings of flash floods in Kansas City. Then, as kickoff drew closer and closer, a sea of grey clouds slowly parted to make way for glorious sunshine.

Though in the end, any hopes of that dramatic shift of the skies foreshadowing an upturn in fortunes for Berhalter and his sorry side proved fallacious as a 1-0 defeat against Uruguay in their final group outing sent them packing at the very first hurdle.

What should have been the springboard to catapult into a World Cup on home soil in two years’ time full of confidence, full of belief in the country’s soccer team has ended in a disaster. USA will play no more part in this sporting festival on their own turf, with a 2-1 win for Panama against Bolivia in the other crucial Group C fixture confirming they will head into the knockout stages at the expense of the hosts