Over/Under on Halsti Leaving

DCUSA · Aug 17, 2016

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There is also a long history of European players coming to MLS and finding that what they consider to be "in shape" for a league season is not what their coach (or the MLS style of play) demands for a league season.

Good luck to Halsti. I liked what I heard about his personality, but I wasn't particularly impressed with what I saw as his play on the field.

Then again, I like Ben Olsen personally, but I've not been particularly impressed with his performance or results as head coach (I also acknowledge that he may be overperforming on a weak hand).
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On a somewhat related note, I'm looking forward to old Euros like Pirlo and Lampard being ground to dust by the time the playoffs come around. The travel, the heat, the amount of running in MLS will catch them.

On a somewhat unrelated note, I'm looking forward to United being somewhat fresh at the end of the season. Usually they have half the team injured with the other half having no legs.

fatbastard · Aug 19, 2016

So he wasn’t bashing Olsen’s approach, as it might have seemed from the translation, but rather noting that United's approach was simply different from the way things are done in Scandinavian leagues. But Halsti admits that he struggled to cope with the change, not ever feeling completely comfortable in the way Olsen’s United went about winning games.

"I never overcame the transition from a organised, tactically well trained team, where both offense and defense worked in harmony, everybody knew their roles and where you would train it almost to a perfection," wrote Halsti. "To a more individually orchestrated team, where players themselves make decision on the pitch, following their own instincts."
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