Arena resigns as manager of U.S. men's team


FILE PHOTO - Football Soccer - U.S. national soccer team training - World Cup 2018 Qualifiers in Mexico City - 10/6/17- U.S. national soccer team coach Bruce Arena smiles in a news conference. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

(Reuters) - Bruce Arena resigned as manager of the U.S. men's national team on Friday after failing to qualify the squad for the World Cup finals in Russia next year.

The soccer world was left stunned on Tuesday when the United States, needing an away win or draw at bottom of the group Trinidad & Tobago to clinch one of the CONCACAF region's three automatic berths, suffered a humiliating 2-1 defeat.

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