Latest News/Pics from USMNT Camp

[FC Uptown]

http://www.ussoccer.com/articles/viewArticle.jsp_281591.html

"Thursday, January 4 @ 8:38 a.m. PT
The first full day of the U.S. Men's National Team camp got started with ... breakfast. That's not to say the team had previously skipped the 'most important meal of the day,' but in the past, players would eat in the hotel restaurant on their own. Team breakfasts are now promptly at 8 a.m. and as a group. So anyone trying to figure out just how different things are going to be with a new staff, there's your first small example..."

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[england66]

Any mention of Nowak and what role he might be taking at camp?


I understand he has been very well recieved by the squad.

[stinky]

http://www.ussoccer.com/articles/viewArticle.jsp_281591.html

"Thursday, January 4 @ 8:38 a.m. PT
The first full day of the U.S. Men's National Team camp got started with ... breakfast. That's not to say the team had previously skipped the 'most important meal of the day,' but in the past, players would eat in the hotel restaurant on their own. Team breakfasts are now promptly at 8 a.m. and as a group. So anyone trying to figure out just how different things are going to be with a new staff, there's your first small example..."

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let's hope that passing a box of frosted flakes between the boys improves their ability to pass the ball to each other.

what a change. we're going to win the world cup in 2010.

[dcsundevil2002]

let's hope that passing a box of frosted flakes between the boys improves their ability to pass the ball to each other.

what a change. we're going to win the world cup in 2010.

It's small little things like this that develop a much better sense of unity and chemistry among the players and the coaching staff. Something as small as this could have avoided the type of mis-communication that happend in Germany when Beasley got bent out of shape when he didn't know if he was going to start in the Czech match or not.

[pwip]

new vid is up at ussoccer.com

[TimB4Last]

LA Times Graham Jones:

http://www.latimes.com/sports/soccer/galaxy/la-sp-soccer5jan05,1,5081104.story?coll=la-headlines-sports-soccer-gal&ctrack=1&cset=true

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"I don't view it as a new era," Gulati said Thursday.

"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, Gulati said. "Expectations are raised, and Bob knows that.

"Last summer was a disappointment. But the summer of 2002 was an extraordinary joy" as the U.S. reached the quarterfinals of the Korea/Japan World Cup. "Hopefully, 2010 will be another joy."

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2002, not 1998, is now the Time B4 Last! :)

Here's hoping!

[Martin Fischer]

It's small little things like this that develop a much better sense of unity and chemistry among the players and the coaching staff. Something as small as this could have avoided the type of mis-communication that happend in Germany when Beasley got bent out of shape when he didn't know if he was going to start in the Czech match or not.

This is nuts. Bradley has a different way of doing things, as well he should. But that's all it is, no magic bullet, free ride etc. Unity and chemistry wasn't the main US problem at the last world cup, it was poor defending and attacking.

Hopefully, all of Bradley's methods will produce the results everyone wants.

[evanpemsocr]

Yes, that is Jim Hashimoto, the head athletic trainer/physical therapist for the USMNT.

if anyone is interested, here is more info on him:

http://www.socceramerica.com/article.asp?Art_ID=562137129
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Hashimoto has been with the team since 1995
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lol, i was just sitting here and i realized that its Hashimoto.

[FakeFlopper]

Bradley and Nowak weren't in my Top 5 for coaches, but for some reason I'm starting to hope they succeed. Maybe I just like rooting for the underdog. The only foreign high profile coach I would want is someone that actually knows and cares about US soccer. I can't think of many that fit that bill right now. The way I see it is Bradley and Nowak don't have anything to lose, so maybe they'll be more likely to change up the playing style more than come other coach.

[GalaxyOne]

As posted in the other thread in USA Men:



It's Hardworkin' Bob, the hardest workin' hard worker in the hard work business, who went to Princeton and through hard work received a hardworkin' degree, undoubtedly in Hard Work Studies.

Listen, I'm glad the man is dutiful and puts in a lot of effort. But I don't want to hear that we have a hardworking coach. I want to hear that our coach is a brilliant tactician. I don't want to hear that he obviously works hard. I want to hear that he makes it look easy.

And how do you think one becomes a brilliant tactician?

Through hard work. Duh.

[GalaxyOne]

He actually did. He joins up with the team on Monday the 8th. At least he didn't wuss out like some of the other guys due to a wedding.

I don't eveny know why he's going to bother showing up on the 8th. He's got a starting spot locked up for the Denmark game, WC2010 and every game in between (that he wants to play in, that is).;)

[Adam Zebrowski]

martin fischer has it nailed dead on...poor defending and poor attacking were the problem in june 2006...

add in arena's message ahd been there for 8 years, and grew stale...

new message, new messenger...

it'll work for a while, but ultimately it's the players who need to perform

[Matt D]

Is it possible to keep the chatter to a minimum? There are 50 other threads to discuss what went wrong at the WC and who should be the new coach. Let's keep this to discussion/pictures/videos/news/reports out of the camp.

[wolfp10]

I don't eveny know why he's going to bother showing up on the 8th. He's got a starting spot locked up for the Denmark game, WC2010 and every game in between (that he wants to play in, that is).;)

He can use training camps as little excursions away from the wife.

[Honore de Ballsac]

poor defending and attacking.

Yup definitely worth a chuckle and some rep.

[Bora Fan]

Video reveals more info about Bradley's coaching team.

#1 Was that Mike Sorber (white coaching sweatshirt) in the early part of the video and later in the one-touch drill? I could have sworn it was him - given his height and unique profile.

#2 Bradley tells the group "Chad" is going to lead the jog - and the keepers can go with "Zach" to do their warm-up

[Ghost]

And how do you think one becomes a brilliant tactician?

Through hard work. Duh.

Through intelligence, too, which Hardworkin' Bob, the Hardest Workin' Hard Worker in the Hard Work Business also has. But mostly through exposure to high-level competition and other high-level tactical thinkers, which .....

I mean, doesn't it bother people here that no one at US Soccer bothers to claim, not even just for PR reasons, that the man is a top-class tactician? I wish they would at least lie to me and give me hope.

I hope I'm proven wrong. Most importantly, I hope I'm not proven right 3 1/2 years from now.

PS: I'm done for this thread. Best of luck to Coach Bradley.

[england66]

...poor defending and poor attacking were the problem in june 2006...




get you killed every time....

[Fussballman 7]

I haven't got a chance to watch the video as I'm stuck at my parents house with dial-up during break, but I did see some pictures that looked like one of the assistant coaches was indeed Mike Sorber. Bora Fan, could the goalkeeper coach that they call "Zak" be Zak Abdel ....former Egyptian international and goalkeeper coach at Chivas under Bradley?

[luftmensch]

I mean, doesn't it bother people here that no one at US Soccer bothers to claim, not even just for PR reasons, that the man is a top-class tactician? I wish they would at least lie to me and give me hope.



They might, if they actually knew what that looked like.