Juergen Klinsmann puts U.S. soccer on fast track

Reporting from Glendale, Ariz. -- Hey, America, Juergen Klinsmann has a message for you: You've fallen behind the rest of the world in soccer.

Way behind.

"Oh, yeah," he says, sighing. "There is still a lot of catching up to do."

And the only way to do that, he says, is to move fast. Really, really fast. So earlier this month Klinsmann opened his first winter camp as coach of the U.S. national team with an eight-day stay at a state-of-the-art training facility in Phoenix, where players had their blood analyzed, their aerobic capacity measured, their strength tested and their eating habits digested — but rarely saw a soccer ball.

It's an admittedly European approach in which training days, part laboratory and part labor, last as long as 13 hours and encompass as many as three exhausting workouts. Yet it's one Klinsmann hopes will fundamentally redefine the way Americans play the game.