My gut feeling, equally completely speculative, is that the job openings at the youth levels had a much more important role than the Gold Cup (although I can't get the vision of Gulati barking, "Get the damn Kraut on the phone!" as Mexico celebrated the third goal in the GC Final out of my head). It's a lot easier to bring in a guy who wants to re-make the youth system when you don't really have to clean house in order to do it. To me, it was the perfect storm of poor results and a new broom waiting to sweep clean.
Oh, I'll bet the U-XX vacancies played a role. They'd kind of have to, considering. My honest guess is that one of Sunil/Flynn's concessions had to do with Jürgen either naming or having a hand in those hirings. Being that Klinsi's been hovering, and Sunil's wanted him for ages, I just strongly suspect that a disappointing GC is really the prime reason that we fired Bob. If Sunil hadn't landed Klinsi, I doubt that Bob would be out of a job right now in favor of some Sigi Schmid or Jason Kreis or Bruce Arena Term #3.
I agree with this, and would like to point out the fact that most don't like to look at this from Bradley's point of view. I think we never even considered that fact that maybe he was the one who didn't want to stay on as coach for another cycle, that maybe HE was the one who lost motivation for the job. I personally think Bradley and Sunil had an agreement for him to stay on until all negotiations with Klinsmann were worked out. You gotta think Bradley put it in his new (although short) contract some sort of clause, especially with the way he was rehired by Sunil, clearly portrayed as the not the first choice. With all the BS he put up with these past four years, I can't blame him if that's how it all worked out. Wouldn't you be PO'd if you were working as the used goods while your boss is too busy trying to impress your replacement?
Klinsmann is the right fit and has the desire to do so, I would like to see him get three cycles in. Give him an opportunity to change the system from the ground up.
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I don't want anyone to have more than one cycle as head coach. If he is successful in this cycle, then I would like to see him move to a position where he selects future coaches for the national teams, oversees player development, etc. Frankly, Klinsi will be better able to change the system from the groud up if he is not also trying to fulfill the responsibilities of a USMNT head coach. Ever since Arena's tenure, I have been adamant that no one should be head coach of the USMNT beyond one cycle.
I have never bought into the one cycle only thing for a coach of national team. Just look at Germany, all three of their World Cup Championship came with coaches who were not in their first cycles. Italy 3 out of 4 Championships came from coaches with more than one cycle. I think to do the job of overhauling USSF set it will take multiple years and cycles. *Brazil hasn't had a manager fail in their second cycle either, of course they haven't had a manager for two consecutive since the 50's.
Its been posted in other threads but in case someone doesn't see it, here is the live stream for the press conference per U.S. Soccer: http://www.ussoccer.com/Klinsmann-Live-Press-Conference.aspx#ooid=dwc2JwMjppmMu7kzqqCs_9tHcRVuXQpo
Not having yet gone through a cycle with him, I lean toward this as well. And doubly so as he hasn't had a tenure that's ever lasted longer than 2 1/2 years, and some have cited burn-out at the end of his Germany tenure. Doesn't sound like he'd have the stamina to run our program day-to-day for 7 years, even if the first three were successful. If he gets us to Brazil, gets us to do well there, and then retires to respected advisors' position where people in USSF look to him for opinions, advice, oversight, etc, then that sounds like a success. I could totally see him in the future as a sort of part-time Technical Director, or Technical Advisor, or whatever you want to call it...
I am a high school German teacher and typically show it to my AP level kids. In a couple weeks they will get a couple articles to read from the German press about Klinsi! It's cool, too, that a few of those guys from 06 are still around (Lahm, Schweini, etc), and the kids enjoy running into them when we do our weekly study of Bundesliga results. For those of you incorrigible Manicheists who insist Jürgen has no interest in X's and O's, there's a good section in that film where he goes at it with Jogi Löw and Andreas Köpke. He's NOT tactically naive!
Ahh.. how refreshing! A teacher who advocates The Beautiful Game. I hate it when my teachers have long in-depth discussions about American football with my classmates and I have no idea what they're talking about. You should give bonus points to the students that know their fußball .
Oh, I was wondering: Is there a video available with English subtitles? Please and thank you in advance.
Agree almost exactly. The one caveat is that someone could be considered again a few cycles down the road [although I suspect this would be very rare]. The track record of consecutive cycles, even for highly successful managers, is just too depressing. Klinsmann could play a strong role in the development of the game in this country without having to be also USMNT manager at the same time.
The News and Analysis forum does not exist for you to bump year-old threads just to call people out. Thanks.
And I am quite sure that I would not want you in my class. "I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!" Indeed.
Not sure if its been asked but anyone know why Thomas Dooley was initially part of Jürgen Klinsmann's staff and he no longer is? Just curious...