Claudio Reyna was sharply critical of the current state of soccer in the United States.

Reyna currently serves as director of football for New York City FC.

"Our approach and our behavior to the sport here -- to coaching, to everything, is just wrong," Reyna said on Tuesday. "We're far too arrogant. We're far too obnoxious. We are egotistical having never won anything or done anything, and that's not the case around the world.

"You travel to Spain, Argentina, Germany and you run into coaches and sporting directors and there's a humility about their work that doesn't exist here, and that's, for me, seeing it, is to me a big concern.

"When you have a disappointment like last week, and we've had past disappointments as well, and we'll have disappointments in the future, but what we need to understand that it's for me behavioral.

"We have coaches who think they're better than they are. Across the board, we just think we do things better than we really do. I mean in every way. Whether it's broadcasting, or media, coaching, we're just not as far along as we tell ourselves we are.

"We need a little honesty, and hopefully this brought it. I think it's far too late. I think we've been asleep at the wheel for a little bit too long."

Reyna also believes the U.S. is doing a poor job taking on best practices abroad.

"We have all these countries around the world we can learn from, and you go over there and you're not going to see different training sessions," Reyna said. "You're going to see good games, and poor games, like in any league across the world.

"But the one thing that we haven't realized, I think, when we have our American soccer people go abroad to learn, I don't think they see the behaviors of the people and how they coach in their day-to-day work. That's the shake-up I hope people realize more than anything.

"You go to a U14 and U15 coach in Spain, and they are 10 times more humble than a U14 or U15 coach in Connecticut, New Jersey or New York, who thinks they're the next Pep Guardiola or Patrick Vieira.

"Until we realize that -- that we're not as good as we think we are at all levels -- then I think we're going to continue being what we are, which is mediocre."