http://www.espn.co.uk/football/unit...ited-states-missing-world-cup-we-failed-today It's been six hours. Why is this man still the head coach?
The current blueprint got us to where we are. Eject to dinosaurs. Too many are just protecting money.
The entire outfit from Sunil on down needed to resign already. If they had any honor or decency they would have done so already. Instead now they need to have a process to be fired. The idea that nothing needs to change is perhaps the worst thing said on the worst night in our history.
Sunil's quote from last night was infuriating, but this from Bruce actually takes the cake. Unreal. I woke up this morning hoping all this crap was a bad dream.
Arena and Sunil will never quit. US Soccer needs to fire them both... NOW. This is the biggest failure ever and Arena is too dumb to even see it and cannot take us forward. Sunil will go into full protection mode since he is responsible for this coaching mess. We could do so much better with a coach that didnt play his favs all the time. He has repeated EXACTLY what got him fired last time ... and now says we're OK? We're not frigging OK bonehead and its your fault. We are too old, too slow and suck on defense while your pet screws us back there game after game. Our goal keepers will go straight from this game into retirement. How will things change if Arena changes? They wont. When has he ever brought in younger players... and I dont mean his pets d'jour? Never. Where is the migration from our youth teams to the full team? It doesnt exist. Arena needs to go, we need a coach that will send people away and it needs to start NOW. There is no forward from this point with the same Admin
Guys, I think you're missing a key point here - We are 2017 Gold Cup Champions!!!! Thank god we brought in our A-list Lions to beat Jamaica's C-team rather than blooding all these talented young guys we are developing!!! Too bad T&T's B-team is better than Jamaica/CR C team
Why would we expect Arena to say anything different? Radical change me he and his ilk are out of jobs. The US program needs to take this as an opportunity to start over. There has to be a significant challenge to Gulati at the USSF. That's an elected position, and he continuously wins the election unopposed. He can't be "fired" per se. Until that happens, its hard to see anything changing. The biggest factor in this disaster...........................was complacency. From the top down.
Everything has to change. For starters the federation has to focus on the product on the field and not on marketing, public relations and other nonsense completely unrelated to soccer. Your job is soccer. Be good at soccer.
That was a stupid quote from Bruce and in the same presser where he said his job was to get to the World Cup and we didn't. I expected his next words to be 'and as a result, I will tender my resignation tomorrow morning'. He should be gone in a flash. In regards to USSF -- there needs to be change, but I do have a concern -- there has been (from what I can tell) some tension shall we say between people who want to stay. the old course and others who have said we need to shake up our development program. I've always viewed Sunil as someone who wanted to shake up our development program. This is the kind of result that could allow us to go back to where we were before some of those changes took place; i.e. get rid of everyone who is making decisions and go back to the way it was. I know I don't want that, I know I want change, but the question is - how is that done in a way that doesn't set us back 5 years vs. set us up for better success in 4 years.
Regarding your last paragraph... I'm a bit nervous. This program requires total rebuild. One that should last longer than four years. However, qualifying in CONCACAF is EASY. I don't care what Bruce says. We will probably qualify next cycle and risk all positive change being thrown out the window. That's why a new president is so crucial.
This is my concern -- and I need folks who know USSF better than I do to answer this. Changes in USSF don't translate to the USMNT quickly, they take time - like time to make a difference in how we develop our youth and have that youth then get to the USMNT. So...if the changes were made and are showing up in how for instance our U17 team is doing, do we want to throw that out? The talent pool for the USMNT is the talent pool for the USMNT -- it doesn't radically change in a year or two. OTOH - someone(s) needs to be held accountable (besides Bruce) for the failure to make the WC.
I'm trying to think of an analogy here because Sunil and Arena don't seem to understand the failure. Sunil is an economics professor, so what if we put it in economic terms: Gross GDP just fell 5% year over year and the country is in the middle of a recession (of course). Given those simple realities, might change be warranted on a country's economic plan?
Why has he not resigned? Seriously, every idiot knows that the last thing you want to do is hang around and wait for people to organize the firing squad. Get out while you can at least say "I got out" rather than waiting to be fired. What a moron.
Literally everything needs to change. That quote makes my blood boil. How about having youth teams care about development rather than making money on kids? Nothing's going to change. US Soccer makes money. That's all they care about.
On that basis, this ought to scare them: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-u-s-world-cup-bid-deals-blow-to-fox-sponsors
ESPN execs are quite busy laughing behind the scenes for sure. The U20 world cup and this U17 world cup teams are pretty damn good. I do think a cleansing is required but there has been some success stewing in the pipeline. Remember drastic developmental change takes 15-20 years to hit the USMNT. Any tactician can get the US to qualify for the World Cup out of concacaf.