This. Plus, so many coaches improve their teams by changing players instead of coaching them. The same is true for MLS, they should probably reduce number of foreign players, and green card players, if they have any interest at all in improvig the American game. Also, I think we need to pursue at least a basic style for NT play, so players develop a similar method outside of camp.
1. Now I don't have to speculate about potential political shenanigans with the U.S. in Russia. 2. Now I understand why I would show up to RFK for a WCQ in the past and find Honduras fans outnumber U.S. fans 3 to 1. You can never count on qualifying for the finals and so the qualifying rounds are indeed a lot of countries World Cups.
They make 85k at min. I make a lot more than that shit and I am not elite pro athlete. The MLS needs to be a 300k min league and they need to attract top players the caliber of Chinese Super League and not old washed up dudes.
Pulisic and Dempsey. Dempsey was playing for his last chance at a WC. He didn't deserve to go out like that with the USA, not after everything he has done for us.
He and his staff and the coaching staff better resign before midnight. Nobody should go to sleep with a job tonight. The size and scope of the FAILURE and the impact it will have on soccer can't be overestimated.
This was a long time coming. Qualification? "We have no chance of not qualifying." Youth Tournaments? "They don't matter" Goalkeeper? "We always produce world class keepers." MLS Youth Development? "It's not the league's place to develop American players." Well, now you have the consequence.
Jurgen "built" soccer in this country as technical director for the last five years or whatever. And left us 0-2. Everybody including Klinsmann is at fault for this FAILURE
It is not vastly superior and it is not close to Mexico. You remove Pulisic and Mexico´s top 4 players are worth as much on the open market as the top 50 US players. That gap is huge. There is one player on that field worth anything and he is a teenager. This is the kind of thinking that leads to delusional conclusions. This is a surprise, but it is not as crazy of a surprise as people make it seem.
He's saying, "see everyone, I told you it wasn't Jurgen's fault." To him, there's a silver lining in our loss: he was right. I detect a hint of schadenfreude in his tweet. I don't like that. I don't feel like arguing about it though. Bigger fish to fry tonight.
Yeah.... what would the world cup be without you guys.... I mean, it clearly has only been a major sporting even since you guys did the rest of the world a favor and showed up to Italia '90...... Anyhow, don't worry about FIFA's coffers.... America's favorite soccer team will indeed be going to Russia.....
Dont count on it. The problems and the corruption at USSF are pretty entrenched. Can't imagine they'll be fixed in 8 years