Jimmy Conrad exposes Michael Bradley

can you elaborate on what the CB and LB mentioned to you (without names of course)

and what was the friction with Feilhaber and Dempsey?

 

You guys, no one liked learning German in school.

 

Your "friend" is confused. Dempsey and Feilhaber have never been in a Klinsmann camp together.

IIRC Benny and Beckerman did have a couple of dustups, the last at the January camp in 2014 when Klinsmann took the roster to train and play closed door friendlies in Brazil. Benny is a known jerk for club and country and is always getting in teammates face on the training ground if he thinks they made the wrong play.

 

Gotcha. I was thinking Clemson

 

I didn't take it that way. thought it possible that some might given the way each person reads between the lines with different glasses.

 

Except he never said that his "friend" said they were at a camp together. After saying that there was some tension there, it seemed that CU editorialized and said that he (CU) thought that there was a dustup in a training camp. He didn't say that his friend told him so.

 

I don't know about under Klinsmann...HHH is usually pretty good with facts that I don't know but my guess is that Dempsey and Feilhaber were at a camp together...perhaps not under Klinsmann but Dempsey and Feilhaber would have had plenty of time to get to know each other in So Africa.

Whether or not that is what was meant I do not have a clue. If there was friction between the two, it is quite possible that Klinsmann would have known about it. Again this is all speculation at this point. Dempsey and Feilhaber had pretty strong personalities (at least that is the impression that I have). I can see one not liking the other...or vice versa. Wouldn't be the first time that it happened on a team. Either way, it is the coach's job to choose the team based upon what he feels is best for the team. Klinsmann and later Arena, rightly or wrongly, chose to exclude Feilhaber. The reason(s) were either for soccer reasons, non soccer reasons or a combination.

Either way, I think it is interesting.

 

would things have been any better with Feilhaber called up? He did well in the Confed and WC when he was called up. Though he was playing in the Danish 2nd division for a while. That would have been quite difficult to justify his inclusion when JK came along.

 

Castillo got relegated to Monterrey's bench right after the Guatemala games. So even if he did fine enough for Klinsmann, by the next camp, Copa Centenario, he was in a form poor enough to never leave the bench.

 

It's been told before. Feilhaber was brought back when Dempsey had his medical condition and then kicked out again.

 

danny williams is still an option?

 

Yes. Less credible.

 

Untrue. Tim Howard spoke out vehemently about German Americans commitment to the US National team.

 

...and was a turnover machine. Have people forgotten that?

 

OK. I'll go ahead and ignore all of your previous posts then and file them under "wild speculation" and "gobbledygook."

 

But isn't this the way it goes with every player on a national soccer team? The ending is rarely pretty. So goes the life of a player in a sport that requires one to be incredibly fit and sharp.

 

@#1 Feilhaber and Adu you need a better, different hobby.

ROTFLMMFAO!

 

I think it was an issue with some of the German-American players (Chandler, Johnson) but not others (Jones, Brooks, Williams and Boyd if you include fringier guys)

 

@autogolazzo I guess this is what you are confused about as far as commitment?

"Some of them are [dual nationals], but I think others are players who have their roots here in America too," said. Howard. "It's not exclusive to them because some of our dual nationals have been brilliant.

"Jermaine Jones has been a rock for our national team. He's been one of the heartbeats. Fabian Johnson has been brilliant for us. So, no, that wasn't aimed at any one person in particular."

http://www.espn.com/soccer/united-s...ion-in-us-team-wasnt-just-from-dual-nationals

 

Well, not that part actually. But from the same article, this:

Howard said that Klinsmann "had a project to unearth talent around the world that had American roots. But having American roots doesn't mean you are passionate about playing for that country."

He later added, "I know there were players that came in that it didn't matter as much to. If you get enough of those players, one or two can get found out, but if you get enough of those players you lose sight of what you are all about. While it was a good idea in theory, it had its flaws."

He doesn't call out German-Americans specifically but I think that it is implied. And yes, he does single out Jones and Johnson as exceptions.

Keep in mind that his comments in this article were in response to his original comments. In this article he is taking a step backward and stating that others (non German-Americans) were problematic as well.