The four-year journey that should ultimately culminate in a World Cup berth for South Africa 2010 began yesterday, with interim coach Bob Bradley at the helm. Between now and then, says Grahaeme L. Jones of the Los Angeles Times, the U.S. now has 3.5 years to rebuild and refocus it’s men’s national team, which will go to the next World Cup without former stalwarts Claudio Reyna, Brian McBride, and Eddie Pope. Of the 28 players called into Bradley’s first camp, 11 have never played for their country. Twenty-one of them have made five or fewer appearances-Landon Donovan and Pablo Mastroeni are the only two real veterans named to the squad. However, just about every European-based U.S. player is missing from this January’s camp, tied up with club commitments. Jones says that although yesterday could be called Day 1 of the Bob Bradley era, U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati said, “I don’t view it as a new era. It’s the start of a new cycle, but it’s not a new era. The new era started quite some time ago” when the U.S. qualified in 1989 for the first of five consecutive World Cups after a 40-year drought. “Expectations are raised, and Bob knows that.”