Not been following the USMNT. But Jürgen Klinsmann made the US play in an exciting way. Am not American but I was excited and decided to support them. I thought immediately after WC the decision was Jürgen Klinsmann would be given another World Cup term. So why did he leave, was he fired, if so why, I dont know the exact circumstances, can not find it on wikipedia. Jürgen Klinsmann vs Bruce Arena, who do you think is the better coach? My gut tells me the departure of Klinsman will backfire.
Made a spelling error on poll. Should be: Who would have been better for the 2018 World Cup in your opinion? Sorry...
We saw flashes of "exciting play" play from Klinsmann, but in the big competitive games the U.S. hung on for dear life and hoped for the best. Ghana game was pretty much the only time it actually worked. Anyway, I think Klinsmann and Arena are pretty much on the same level as coaches. Neither seem to have any ideas how to compensate for the current state of the pool, which lacks high end veterans in their prime.
They both suck and we deserve better. The USSF needs to get their heads out of their ass. Neither should be coaching us in the 2018 WC and because of both of them we may miss it.
Unnecessary thread, players visibly quit on JK. No manager should be around for two cycles Arena proved that himself.
Could be true, we do not know for sure what the background was or what the factions were. Even if it is true it does not imply: Also could be true. I am sure there are cases of managers doing well over two cycles. If success is defined as winning the WC then anything else is failure so once again opinion and fact are being presented as one and the same here. He was an instance of failure of a two cycle manager. His failure does not adequately demonstrate the general case as being true.
Yeah, players visibly quit on JK. But with Arena the players think they are lions while they play like pussies housecats.
tab?? are you crazy?? what has he done to be the heir-apparent??? re: BA and JK: they are neck and neck, but i give the edge to bruce.... when you peel away the superficial differences they are surprisingly similar coaches, imo.
Despite his firing, I believe JK would have turned things around. His lack of being humble certainly didn't help his case.
One of the last things Klinsmann said as a US coach, after the destruction by the Ticos, was something along the lines of "losses like this will always happen, from time to time." I imagine him talking to Sunil, the day he got fired: Sunil: "I need you to guarantee it, that you will turn it around, and that we'll be in Russia." Klinsmann: "I cannot do that. It's very likely we'll do it, but I just cannot offer you my personal guarantee." Sunil: "So, you expect to lose again? To miss the World Cup?" Klinsmann: "That's always a possibility." So it wasn't the bravado, the double-talk, the mediocre youth results, or the terrible product on the field with the main team that cost him the job. In the end, it was a flash of honesty.
How could anyone pick Klinsmann? Ugh. He is there with Steve Sampson as all time worst USMNT coach. The guy who thought Julian Green was more valuable than Landon Donovan.
Wonder if Klinsi's golden parachute was so big, he won't ever work again. If that's the case, the USSF did good for the world.
Bruce has us on the edge of failure to qualify for the World Cup. And yet there are still posters either pining of Klinsmann, or trashing him as the worst coach ever. Hilarious.