I feel bad for US fans. You have reached a point where '25 minutes' of progress is progress. This is worthy of its own thread because it is literally unbelievable to anyone who cares about what they do or strives to be a professional to think in these terms. Michael Spinks looked good for those 15 seconds against tyson. https://www.si.com/soccer/2019/11/1...mnt-usa-vote-confidence-canada-nations-league "Stewart argued on Tuesday that he approves of the process that Berhalter has undergone with the national team, and while he said he wasn’t happy with the loss to Canada, Stewart cited the first 25 minutes of the Gold Cup final against Mexico as an example in which he was “very pleased” about the style of Berhalter’s team against difficult opposition." USMNT welcome to rock bottom.
I am still in awe of these quotes from US Soccer. Those boys looked tip-top in the tunnel! At lunch over scrabble, nothing but aces from my boys, 6 letter triple word score. Nailed! I saw a 2 minute burpee set, outstanding! It is simply absurd. Absurd! 25minutes = millions of investment, perhaps two versions of Power Point, A year in the "search." After hundreds of qualified interviews (2) and thousands of applicants (2) and hundreds of man hours in tireless search for the best coach on the planet.. The best of the best of the best in physio and cardio and tech for treatment... and 25 effing effing minutes against a team that has beat the US nonstop for the last years. Mexico, a global also ran that gets spanked by any top 15 team, and 25 OK minutes against them and nothing but progress to see here! And we still lost! Not a good 3 game span. Not a proper series of friendlies, but 25 minutes!!! I am in awe of the fortress created around US Soccer.
I am not sure we need another thread to beat this dead horse.... Nevertheless I share your opinion w/ respect to this quote and Earnie's position overall. What a joke.
I needed to isolate this moment in time, when 1/4th of a match we lost is the barometer of success since not making the world cup. Literally, that is it. That is the entire expectation. Sure we could do that for 90min, heck we could even score...but... Not so fast. I am in disbelief. Stewart spent a year interviewing no one. Coordinating nothing. Overseeing his own diminishing hairline. I have no idea what he did for a year while Beerholder took a mediocre team to its mediocre conclusion.
I wish Mexico would just say, we came out flat for 25 minutes and then realized we were dealing with an idiot so we just adjusted to dominate this incompetent coach.
This is what an MLS takeover of the USMNT looks like. Kinda like when one company buys a competitor to put it out of business.
I am not joking when I say CP should charge SUMUS Soccer 100,000 per appearance. They are riding his coattails to profits that don't belong to them.
Look on the bright side: there's always club soccer. At least most of the time, when a club has incompetent leadership, the fans can actually do something to get the leadership canned. Sadly, US Soccer isn't the case.
If this keeps up much longer the USMNT will become irrelevant to most American soccer folks. Casual fans in particular.
Supporters should chant this in the 25th minute of games: "You see progress, we see regress. The entire fed's a f*#king mess!"
Ah, I'm not a big minecraft fan. Otoh, you used words that describe the Earth too... Add a reference to Endermen or something, and we'd get it...
If 25 minutes gets you a 4-1 victory then I have no complaints. Look what France do: France 2-1 Moldova in Paris! Trailing 1-0 after a horrific display of ineptitude on defense. Earlier they beat the super power team from Andorra (semi pro at best) 3-0 in Paris. They are World champions. 25 minutes like we’re had against Canada is just what the doctor ordered at this stage.
France is not my role model. I don't want to be like France. Caligiuri, Harkes, Ramos, Dempsey, McBride, Armas, Hejduk, JMM, Pope ... these are players who played with iron and fire. Where are these type of players now?
Watching Krazy Keller sprouting giant happy boners on ESPN over the victory tells you everything you need to know about the insider sentiment at US Soccer: These dudes are desperate for the smallest crumb of progress to hire Beerholder for life or at the very least wait for Bradley to be ready for player coach in 4 years.
The performance strangely enough was vastly less impressive and progressive of the Beerholder system than it was a return to Bob Bradley's greatest hits. I have nothing against it, I just wanted to note this was not the Beerholder US system we've been watching in the past.