USMNT Chief Scout Thomas Rongen: Messi's "lack of high soccer IQ makes him average w Argentina"

Maybe what he meant was that he'd driven to the house and watched Jonathan from a back window as he slept. Three times.

He just wanted to be near him.

 

Richie Williams also drove Gonzalez's U17 teammates Abraham Romero and Edwin Lara to leave the USYNT program and join Mexico's.

 

This just keeps getting better and better. I still hate that he left and more importantly said that he was with team USA until the last min but I no longer blame him for leaving.

 

WrongAgain got caught fibbing. I'm shocked!

 

Subotic says "Hello".

 

In this Howler interview from a week or so ago he says he "left" his position sometime in December.:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fight-for-dual-nationals/id581810649?i=1000399629393&mt=2

Truly bizarre, I don't even understand why someone would lie about the things he is lying about. In any event that podcast is amazingly bad. If you are prone to self harm please do not listen.

 

He's an enigma who loves himself. So glad he's fading off into the sunset.

 

Random, perhaps, but can any shot at Adu really be unexpected?

 

What a total and complete ass.

 

Remember that time he bald face lied on camera about visiting Jonathon Gonzalez 3 times in person, took no personal responsibility for losing the program a great prospect and then blamed it on everything and everyone else?

https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/ne...ts-top-young-players-to-mexico-national-team/

Oh it's deleted? Why is this guy still employed in any soccer related function in this country?

 

In the immortal words of Foghorn Leghorn: "that guy’s like taxes, he just don’t know when to stop.”

 

And if you are wondering about the poor state of USA soccer, Thomas Rongen is a coach in the system in charge of talent evaluation.

 

And has been for decades and is just one of many of the same group of people that have been recycled over and over again, including the current coaching staff, which after failing in the most spectacular way imaginable is still in place.

Meanwhile, we get more stories about how Sarachan, who got passed over for a 3rd rate college job at St Louis university, is actually considered a legitimate candidate for the head coaching position long term, then we do any stories from soccer "journalists" about the liar, the effects, consequences and what if any changes will be made moving forward in the talent evaluation department.

Point being Rongen is a small little symptom of the poor state of US soccer

 

We can’t have anything nice...

 

Don't forget he was head coach of our U-20 team from 2001 to 2011!* The man shaped our young talents and mind for a generation.

(** Except for a brief sabbatical in 05-'06 that he spent getting fired from Chivas.)

His greatest career accomplishment was leading American Samoa to victory over Tonga. Giant-killers.

Then he directed the Toronto FC academy, got fired in less than a year coaching the Tampa Bay Rowdies, and then was crowned as chief international scout by Arena, in a career path that defines the phrase "failing upwards."

And I think he's still technically in that role along with the rest of Arena's staff.

 

It's all in the terms of the contract. If you're hired under the right contract and prove inept, all that is left is kick you upward.

 

Comments like Rogans are a sad reminder that it's not about what you know, but rather WHO you know.

 

It's worse than that-it's the old distrust of pure talent that is common in so many American/British coaches in any sport.

 

You know he's Dutch, right?

 

We know he says he's Dutch...

 

How long has he been immersed in this system?
He is assimilated...