Now there is a separation, with Bruce Arena taking over the short-term objectives of the men’s senio. “By natural growth of the league … the formation of some sort of organized group would naturally happen. There is only so long you can carry a chip on your shoulder before it starts to weigh you down,” he says. ”“What may undo him are the mental and emotional factors, both his ability to control that fierce competitiveness as well as how much it burns him out mentally.