We still are. I have a young child that goes to a Red Bull program and I’m considering going somewhere else. I watch some of the older age groups playing at the same time and all they are doing is standing around. Receiving instruction. Without a ball. Mind you the Red Bulls are considered to be at the forefront of player development and yet...standing...receiving instruction...without a ball...for a long long LONG time.
Good point. Hey this is America, the big melting pot. You could schedule a friendly with Iceland in Las Vegas and somehow you'd fill the stadium with more Norsemen than there are in Iceland. It just seems that whomever we play at home, the fans of the visiting team are there en masse.
I wonder if PTFC have been trying to get Diego to convince Yimmi to move the Portland. He was lively in his cameo.
I want him to play more than 10 minutes every fourth game to evaluate if I like him at this level. Most of the starters played more in this match than Novakovich has his entire career. Dave is the worst US manager I've seen at distributing minutes for players in friendlies. Law of averages caught up with him after a solid summer.
Hmm...that seems weird. I'm not gonna pretend to be a coaching master -- I only have my USSF D license -- but even in a USSF program that badly needs change and probably only taught me a fraction of what any European counterprart would know, the number one thing emphasized to us in the E and D courses was to max touches on the ball and minimize static instruction. Granted I know I'm in the lower licenses and there is a lot of telephone game played from A-pro down to my level. But seems like NYRB would be bucking the USSF system with academy philosophy like that.
Jill Ellis is still coaching.. it will come into play in big matchups..well that and the unwillingness to switch some of the old guard
Bradley is way past it, but we knew that already. No way they keep starting him, right? Right? Saief and Robinson are quite terrible. If they were in MLS people here would be clamoring to never see them again. We need Puli to be our new Dempsey, and Wes to be our new JJ. The role of New Landon is still open though: no one in our pool comes close to being the creative hub to make us look better than just hard-trying.
I've been saying that since the first qualifying match. The problem was not jk it was the players and the planning and investment in producing good players is corrupt and not easily correctable. It is based on cronyism, racism, profiteering and worst of all, corporate interests. And trust me the reason I know this is the worst is because just like everyone else, I like money just not in my soccer soup.
It tells you how bad the American press and fans are at evaluating the game that they think our best asset is our defenders.
Oh FFS, must we continually explain this to everybody. It's a British term. Go complain to Italians for naming football after a medieval kicking game that doesn't even exist anymore.
The reaction of the coaches when Robinson came off reminded me of how we treat the 9 year old on my kid's baseball team who has never played baseball before after he strikes out on three pitches. "Hey, great job kid, don't worry that you only swung the bat when the ball was on its way back to the pitcher!"
We outperformed my expectations. I predicted a 1 - 4 loss. Saw some decent signs of life but I remain frustrated. Anyway, it's Colombia and it was another away game.
I principally call it football because you play a ball with your foot, but you just make yourself look vacuous for caring that much about such a superficial issue.
it was a bad loss - getting "ole'd" in your own country is pretty pathetic - but thankfully the vets are back and will help right the ship!!
That isn’t true. He’s not a burner but he was running full speed until Falco ran past him. At that point, the defender is back there to cover. Not covered in glory there, but not what you and a Couple other have said. And that goal was 100% on Robinson failing to do a simple containment. He does that, the defense and Bradley get back.
Ok so before the 1990 Worldcup, Colombia was nothing!! and so was the US. Now they both qualified to the 1990 Worldcup after several decades, but how is it that the colombians were able to develop players like James, Cuadrado, Falcao, Quintero, etc.. and the US has developed nothing of that caliber? What are they doing that we are not?