Kljestan offers an honest assessment of his disappointing 2009 campaign.

"I think maybe I took a few breaks during the season and that wasn’t good," he told Goal.com over the phone on Thursday afternoon while taking a break during U.S.’s January training camp. "I think as a whole there were times when I wasn’t as determined as before and I wasn’t putting everything into it. I was trying to rely too much on soccer and not enough on effort."