I am sure Dempsey, Donovan and Pulisic are laughing at this...From the coach sabotaging two of the best attacking players in US history to his son sabotaging the best attacking player in US history. JK tried to play him up as an 8 and it got him fired. MB forced his move to the six under Bruce and it got him fired and the US out of the world cup.
What is complicated about leaving a crap city in a crap soccer country? I would pay money to get out of the US if I was a professional soccer player. Yedlin has what over a hundred starts in the EPL and championship. That is a failure? He fell off the bus recently because he decided to care about other marketing agendas and not playing right back. I got abused on this forum for telling everyone 5 months before it happened that Yedlin was not focused on football and was getting worse.
Bradley + Vela = Bad Telenovela Schmetz easily the best US football coach of the last decade. Much better choice for national team than Beerholder who should be running at club football level at his age and forget the National team.
I will say this about his speed: he could be faster if he worked on bulking down. He's going to crash his knees sooner or later.
More or less boneheaded than FCD trading him to LAFC in the first place? It all comes down to salary cap shenanigans. Zimmerman is on a big contract. I sorta wonder about Zimmerman. He also went on extended trials in Europe, and got zero interest. He ended up in Norway & Sweden, and couldn't garner a contract offer. Ponderous.
I wonder if Schmetz would want the US Nats job, many coaches don't want national team jobs. Would it pay more for him?
I dunno.. Vanney has been just as good, if not better than Schmetzer. As for Schmetzer leaving the Sounders for the USMNT.. I don't know about that. Schmetzer has been associated with the Sounders in some capacity since 1980 and a fan since they were founded.. Coaching the Sounders is pretty much Schmetzer's dream job and I really don't see him leaving until he is forced out, or retires.
MLS playoffs are set-up similar to the World Cup knock out rounds. The games are seeded based on regular season position within each conference, with the games played at the home of the highest seeded team, and the games are all single elimination. You can find the bracket for the playoffs at the link below so you can see what the playoffs are like: https://www.mlssoccer.com/mls-cup-playoffs/2020/bracket In your example, since Philadelphia lost last night, they are now eliminated from the playoffs and are done for the year.
I like the guy because he's not anything other than what he is: a very good defensive ball coach. He's not a power point pony or an inverted maestro reverse cowboy. He brings in his team. He watches his team. He builds his team. He plans for the next match and he has consistently delivered. Bruce and Bob get all the attention because they need it, but I'd love to see the guy for the nats team rather than a too raw too irritating beerholder.
While I get that you don't like Berhalter and that's entirely fine, Berhalter was 7 years into his head coaching career when he was tapped as USMNT coach. That's not exactly what I'd call raw. I also don't necessarily disagree with you that Schmetzer would be a good USMNT coach. I just don't think he'd take it. Schmetzer and his family are the embodiment of not just the Sounders, but the soccer culture in Seattle and Schmetzer seems to recognize that.
If you put Schmetz in front of the badge and said, yes or no? I'd put good money on yes. I could be wrong. You coach a national team in my opinion after your 20th year of coaching. When you have consolidated a lifetime of game plans, management, structure, personalities and above all, wins. I liked beerholder a heck of a lot better as a player at Rostock than I do as a coach at this time. He has not learned to be himself yet. He still panders.
I guarantee I put you on a 5 man back line with a 3 to 4 man bank in front of you and you'd look like the next Cannavaro.
I like how hundreds, nay thousands of professional athletes have died. The ghost of Ronaldo has scored some great goals. Seriously, at which point does this nonsense end? Read the government and official scientific reports people. Old, fat, already sick. Sportsmen are better than fine. Go freedom.
You are aware that dying is only one result of catching covid, right? In the case of athletes, you aren’t wrong that most will recover just fine, but there have been several athletes that have developed heart conditions, which, as you can imagine, is detrimental to their careers. We also won’t know the full impact to the players that catch covid. Heart issues, in particular, can be difficult to catch and isn’t something that is always checked for among young, physically fit people.
Hey Sam, we're glad you came back and joined the PBP thread. But we're not really the best place to debate Greg Berhalter as USNT coach or to debate Covid protocols. These things just are in the context of this thread, and we don't need to argue them herein. There are places for folks to do so elsewhere on the site.
While you're right in that athletes are highly unlikely to die from COVID, the long-term impacts on a person's health are unknown at this point. And all indications are that people who recover from COVID nevertheless are at heightened risk for other health complications.
So....different playoff-related question.....what next for LAFC? Second year in a row they've gotten bounced by the Sounders, and fourth year in a row they've conceded three goals in the game in which they were eliminated. Seems like they are going nowhere unless they improve their defense, but they've already got all three DP spots allocated to attackers. Or do they fire Bob Bradley....
I'd also like to point out that my friend Ismitje is being a lot more diplomatic than I feel like being, and I'll leave it at that.
And I could mention a few (hundred) soccer coaches that are old, out of shape if not fat, and even diabetic. But hey, young athletes - amirite?