How long before Ryan gets fired?

Discussion in 'USA Women: News and Analysis' started by Anthony, Sep 28, 2007.

  1. Anthony

    Anthony Member+

    Chelsea
    United States
    Aug 20, 1999
    Chicago
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Well, how long?
     
  2. Adam Zebrowski

    Adam Zebrowski New Member

    May 28, 1999
    ussf will never fire him....

    he'll do the honorable thing, and resign....probably after the olympics...

    brandi for head coach!!
     
  3. Norfolk

    Norfolk Member

    Mar 22, 2001
    Brandi, please no! Has she ever coached a team at any level. Don't tellme it is because she has played at the national level, so has Maradonna.
     
  4. Adam Zebrowski

    Adam Zebrowski New Member

    May 28, 1999
    lots of male stars turn out to do very well managing....

    the game isn't a mystery...and i'd think chastain knows more about the game than the vast majority of coaches....

    she's the freaking leader, something ryan clearly didn't grasp...

    give her a technical assistant if yoy think she's tactically challenged...

    of course, her husband could help out, although he's turned the job down previously
     
  5. kickinthehead

    kickinthehead Member

    Mar 17, 2006
    Generally, coaches who witness a disastrous performance of their team resign immediately after the WC. Since Ryan is such a Forrest Dumb, I doubt he'll take responsibility for his team's poor showing and for his own poor coaching at the WC.
     
  6. Adam Zebrowski

    Adam Zebrowski New Member

    May 28, 1999
    in general, it was one BAD choice, but was it bad...

    i do wonder if any of the assistants would have asked him, do you really wanna do this.....

    if you had her in mind, PLAY her MORE ....

    but usa wins the bronze, and get another shot next year...

    wonder who the keepers will be...
     
  7. Albirrojo

    Albirrojo Member

    Aug 27, 2004
    It boils down to the term, "gamefit", they said it about Michael Owen before England's last international. It is a very elementary term.
     
  8. Bonnie Lass

    Bonnie Lass Moderator
    Staff Member

    Lyon
    Norway
    Oct 20, 2000
    Up top
    Club:
    Olympique Lyonnais
    Moving to U.S. Women News & Analysis ...
     
  9. Anthony

    Anthony Member+

    Chelsea
    United States
    Aug 20, 1999
    Chicago
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Was it in the 1998 World Cup that the Saudi coach was fired after 2 games?
     
  10. ironduke2010

    ironduke2010 Member

    Mar 18, 2005
    A2, MI USA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    anyone else think dicicco looks like a freaking genius at this point? the guy seemed to be coaching better from the booth than many of the coaches, not just ryan. that boston team will be awesome in 2009.
     
  11. Dom. FC

    Dom. FC Member+

    May 10, 2004
    Central US
    You mean he still has a job? And the person up-thread that said it was just ONE bad decision obviously hasn't been getting up early and watching the matches with the rest of us. ;>)
     
  12. kcguru

    kcguru Member

    Jun 16, 2007
    Wisconsin
    I agree with that! Think we can get him for a temporary coach for the Olympics?
     
  13. MRAD12

    MRAD12 Member+

    Jun 10, 2004
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    If Osborne heads the first goal out, if scurry makes the save on the second shot, if Boxx doesn't get thrown out, if Tina played D up to her billing, we would not be talking about firing Ryan right now. He would look like a genious. It has all to do with bad playing and nothing to do with his coaching.
    Maybe USSF will give him another chance and let him coach until the Olympcs.
    Otherwise, Chris Petrucelli, Randy Waldrum or ask Dorrance to take over for a year.
    But please, NO BRANDI, NO JULIE and definately not that pompous ass Dicicco. Let's finally move on from the 99ers.
     
  14. kool-aide

    kool-aide Member+

    Feb 1, 2002
    a van by the river
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Petrucelli? Haven't his teams woefully underperformed for the talent level there? Or has he stepped things up in the last 2 yrs or so?
     
  15. ugaaccountant

    ugaaccountant New Member

    Oct 26, 2003
    There is plenty of time to get a new coach for the olympics. Same players basically but a new coach who uses them correctly and substitutes logically. There should never be guaranteed employment after a major tournament you lose with the top ranked talent.
     
  16. StarCityFan

    StarCityFan BigSoccer Supporter

    Aug 2, 2001
    Greenbelt, MD
    Club:
    Washington Freedom
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If he were a better coach, then maybe some of those things would actually have happened. If one player screws up, blame the player. If an entire team of elite players looks like crap, blame the coach.
     
  17. goalieanna

    goalieanna New Member

    Jul 30, 2006
    California
  18. Labdarugo

    Labdarugo Member

    Dec 3, 2000
    Downwind
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    http://podcast.ussoccer.com/sept28_wwc_pressconference.MP3

    The audio of Coach Doofus' press conference from Friday. A lot of the questions were about Hope Solo or the team versus asking serious questions about his shocking tactical and personnel decisions. Listening to the interview, I don't think he has the slightest clue how badly he betrayed the players on the team.
     
  19. BlitzSpiele

    BlitzSpiele Member

    Sep 7, 2007
    Yeah, we couldn't EVER possibly learn from such a successful group. :rolleyes:
     
  20. BlitzSpiele

    BlitzSpiele Member

    Sep 7, 2007
    I have always thought he was the genius behind the 96 and 99 run. Read Jere Longman's Girls of Summer if you are in doubt. He is very holistic in his approach and he got results. His black eye came from being commissioner of the unsustainable WUSA.
     
  21. ironduke2010

    ironduke2010 Member

    Mar 18, 2005
    A2, MI USA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    "and if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon."

    the thing with the bad playing is, it happened all tourney. it wasn't so much that the players played poorly individually (though there was a little bit of that), but more they played poorly as a team, as if they had just met each other or something. hardly the well oiled machine we've come to expect (and saw in other teams.), which comes from preparation, which is the coach's responsibility.

    you sound as if you might be one of those people who think the coach is largely irrelevant in soccer. as if talented players get talent 100% by themselves, can figure out a team style and strategy by themselves, can develop team chemistry by themselves, and know when and who to sub themselves out and in. maybe on rec teams. not in pro clubs and international soccer.

    you may think dicicco is a pompous ass. and maybe he is, i have no idea. but his observations watching games on studio monitors proved accurate, and even pompous asses can be effective coaches who get results. just ask chelsea.
     
  22. LakeLover

    LakeLover Member

    Aug 11, 2003
  23. JeremyEritrea

    JeremyEritrea Member+

    Jun 29, 2006
    Takoma Park, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If Sunil had any balls, he would've fired Ryan today.
     
  24. htide

    htide Member

    Jul 28, 2007
    I agree or at least ban him from the game in the same manner they did hope.
     
  25. REALfootballRulez

    May 25, 2007
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    This idiot Ryan needs to fired ASAP and Hope needs to be the starting goalie again!
     

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