It's been nearly 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 tournament. A new 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, as the U.S. prepares to face T&T in the Gold Cup on Sunday, there's still that little hint of something. A feeling, perhaps some kind of anger. This isn't a rivalry, not by a long shot, but there is something there.
Because of that, the questions are inevitable: ahead of Sunday's match, do the current USMNT players feel that something?
"It's largely a different group that was part of that game," midfielder Cristian Roldan said. "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 start in Couva that fateful night, only one will be involved on Sunday. Just four have been involved at all in the past year or so. 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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