Amid managerial tumult, USA launch new World Cup cycle with Serbia loss

Eight US players debut in 2-1 friendly defeat to SerbiaHudson serves as acting manager amid Berhalter probeAlexi Lalas, a television commentator who represented the United States in two World Cups, succinctly described the setting surrounding the national team’s first camp since the World Cup in Qatar.“January camps are always kind of strange,” Lalas told Sirius XM satellite radio, “but this is even more so because of the circumstances.”