John Brooks is back in the Bundesliga, this time with Hoffenheim (supposedly he will start this weekend).
Claudio is out as sporting director in Austin, though he’ll stay on as an advisor. Everyone has to go. Surely GB won’t be renewed as this point.
I'm glad I was scrolling though Twitter. I had myself convinced this was another 10 PM start time since we're still out west. Apparently that shithole is still good for something after all.
Zimmerman and Long are looking like the young inexperienced mls guys not the guys who were in Qatar. Cucho looking great though.
Agree. Happens all the time in sports (or just life in general) Leaders (coaches, bosses etc) default to or give preference to the one with more experience over perhaps the one who can contribute more/better, has more/better skills, gives more effort or just plane cares more. But I feel like in Soccer in US this has been an amplified problem. We get a crop of players tha tget identified and once they are in...they are in. So we then get that same crop of players until the wheels literally fall off. We've seen it with both mens and womens National teams. We see it with Crew. The unwillingness to let youth grow and prosper and perhaps shine over veterans is evident. It takes a strong manager to identify and then believe in and provide opportunities to younger talent. To truly incorporate them into the team. When a group operates like this for a period of time they are only living for the now and when the future comes it all falls apart. In order to have longer term sustained success you must continually be restocking the pipeline and providing opportunities for people to grow. Those that do are the ones we refer to as Reloading, Not Rebuilding. Those are the ones that achieve greatness more frequently.
That would be a dream job but one where I don't think they'd take a guy with just youth soccer playing experience in a town that didn't even have soccer until he was 10 and didn't have a high school team until he was a freshman too seriously. But I do have lots of other sports playing and coaching experience as well as over 25 yrs real world business management/leadership experience and I'm pretty confident in my assessment (don't see it as bitching) I noted above. Maybe someone like me is exactly what they need in that organization.
Theres no way they dont....right? Basically the highest profile American coach in the game right now, right? The stars are basically aligned right now. USSF doesnt need to waste half a year or whatever sussing out candidates. They can get an experienced American coach in there who can hit the ground running. Plenty of people will have their complaints about him and how theres gotta be someone better or whatever but come on. This is the obvious move. Im sure Jesse will be interested too. Hes not going to get hired by any other Premier League team, maybe if hes lucky a mid to lower table Bundesliga team would try him. And if theres no higher level job prospects like that available currently, USMNT is a no brainer. Hes said hes interested in coaching the US eventually, recently. Well that opportunity just got expedited. He can still work with top level Americans like Adams, McKennie, Aaronson.....and try to build his reputation up good again over this next world cup cycle. Ill be surprised if they dont sign him before Nations League starts.