Wynalda: US Soccer Player Talent Now Outweighs US Coaching Talent
Posted on April 11, 2012 4:36 am
The guys discuss Eric Wynalda’s recent tweet that US Soccer talent now outweighs the ability of the coaching in this country. On The Straight Red Card.
Hasn’t Wynalda’s license to talk been revoked due to lack of intelligence yet?
At least letting idiots talk and then listening to them like they might have something intelligent to say isn’t restricted to soccer. But Waldo’s views on soccer coaching and teams ought to come with some sort of warning label . . .
“At least letting idiots talk and then listening to them like they might have something intelligent to say isn’t restricted to soccer.”
Let’s leave Skip Bayless out of this.
Breaking News: Amy Wynalda thinks the current US team’s talents are better than the 90′s team.
Ouch
At first when I read the title of the show I figured the tweet was just another one from Eric whining that he should be a coach in MLS. But then you two brought up that maybe he was talking about at the lower ranks and it got me interested in the subject. Has Wynalda clarified what he level of coaching he was refering too?
The conversation must have been lost on a lot of his followers b/c the only person that got a reply from Waldo was a guy talking about how it isn’t the coaches, but rather the lack of pick-up culture. Waldo said “good coaches are pick-up culture”.
I still think he’s talking big picture, b/c there are some quality coaches out there. The problem is our country is so massive and there will always be more mediocre and poor coaches then top notch.
Player talent definitely outweighs commentator talent.
HAHAHA
Well played.
I should have business cards printed that read “Eric Wynalda’s Last Fan.” In this case, he reminds me of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – outspoken superstar who no one wants to trust with their team. Kareem coached a few lower-division teams with middling success – I could take two seconds on Google to confirm this, but life is short. I wonder if Waldo would take the significant pay cut required to coach an NASL or USL-PRO team…or whether he would after Fox inevitably fires him for the next controversial thing he says.
He’d also have to leave California, unless he’s next in line for the LA Blues job in Fullerton. He thoroughly burnt his bridges in San Jose, Chivas has a very good coach, and the collateral damage of Waldo trying to coach Donovan (let alone Keane and Beckham) would probably destabilize American democracy as we know it.
Why should Wynalda do this? Klinsmann has hardly any club coaching experience and look where he is today!
Klinsmann had a lot more playing experience though.
American democracy may actually need destabilizing.
I just have this funny feeling, Dan, and I may be wrong, that Wynalda wouldn’t take a job at lower divisions. I think he firmly believes he should be the MLS Commissioner. That’s the impression I got from the NSCAA Conference Speech a few months ago. Either that or USSF Prez.
I might even say that Wynalda has burned more bridges in the US Soccer world than Jabbar did in basketball.
While coaching NASL or USLpro club would be ideal for Wynalda to prove he has the chops to be a coach in MLS, a couple successful runs with a PDL or NPSL club would go a long way in itself. Bet there are even a couple quality California based opportunties in those leagues for him too.
In the book about ESPN, “Those Guys Have All The Fun” radio blowhard Colin Cowherd is described as “a man who seemed never to have an unspoken thought.” Not for the first time I think that description also fits Waldo.
Switch out “an unspoken” to “a” and I think you have Cowherd.
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