They supposedly wanted to prioritize winning with this hire. So they of course go get this guy whose biggest accomplishment is being a runner-up or finishing 3rd or 4th or whatever. All this clown is going to do is force (“advise”) our players who are actually getting regular minutes (like Schulte) to go to some European dumpster fire like Chelsea so they can rot away on the bench. All in the name of “challenging themselves against the best” or whatever. Ben Olsen would’ve been a better hire.
Everyone at US Soccer from the useless mediocrity that is Cindy Cone on down, issued quotes about how the big advantage with this guy is his skill at "developing" players. Except that developing players is not what a national team coach does. Clubs do that. In the limited time players are in camp his job is instilling and installing the system he wants and then getting everyone on the same page. He selects pre-developed players and builds a team.
https://www.thenutmegnews.com/current/2024/9/11/pochettino-out-demands-usmnt-fan They left out Big Soccer
I lost all interest in the US team after the fiasco with Claudio Reyna, his wife, Eddie Lewis and Brian McBride. It's a culture of mediocrity and failure. They set back the US side 20 years. There is no identity, no passion, and no path forward until Sunil is brought back as the President of US Soccer. San Marino has more hope than this team. (not on the players) They bring in a guy that has won 1 league title with PSG, and was fired shortly thereafter. Pathetic.
I know it's not a popular view, but the USSF has not been competently run for ten seconds after Sunil Gulati was chased off. He certainly was far from perfect but he was a top notch administrator and a very able player in the arcane halls of FIFA. He even worked for free. Now we've got a clown car of overpaid non-entities.
I lost all interest in the National Team when the fanbase lost it's collective marbles and started lobbing attacks at the coach because they didn't win the World Cup.
A World Cup trophy not a baseline for a successful team, but I can tell you what a baseline for failure is. It's when the wife of teammate of the coach files a complaint of spousal abuse from the 1990's because she is upset that he disciplined her son, a grown ass man. It's when Brian McBride and Ernie Stewart involve themselves in politics akin to a U12 traveling team in suburban mid America.
Tell that to all of the edgelords on the internet who do nothing but bitch and moan literally all the time about literally everything.
I mean, I've always been a Club > Country guy, but yes. The constant screaming of the fringe idiots ruined the experience for me. Perfect example: Blatant celebrations when Gregg got fired. This is a human being and he's just lost his job, and people are actively celebrating this?
The current fed does a lot more philanthropic activities than it used to do to solidify the base of players and coaches. The current CEO JT Batson has a youth refereeing background and Crocher has a youth development emphasis. Theyre focused on getting more donations to put to use towards improved coaching and removing the barriers for youths to play. It will be slow work. At the same time, they managed to get the two best coaches available in both the women and men game. There are no more excuses for this current crop of players. It will be on them in 2026 to get it done. As for after 2026, the current group of u20s will be a struggle because of Covid's impact. But the u17s are looking good.
The USMNT fanbase, by and large, is the literal actual worst I have ever encountered in sports. My lack of overall interest springs in large part in avoidance of that fanbase, but also partly because the core group of players is comprised of guys who may or may not play from week to week for various clubs in Europe that I have no interest in. There was a time not so long ago that the club and league I primarily follow played a pretty large part in the US national team picture. Things have changed. Thats fine. My interest level has changed too.
Eh, coaches are hired to be fired. Celebrating a change in team management doesn't seem especially egregious. If they were celebrating a relative of his dying or something like that, then of course that's out of bound. A lot of people here lamented the dump truck didn't take out Nee once upon a time.
I agree with the micro. Not the macro. The Gregg haters were ridiculous. They had ridiculous POVs that are too myriad to list here. But literally every single coach of every single team has always been a human being. And if you suck at your job, people are going to want you fired.
Yes. Fair. It's the reason I don't moderate this board anymore. Dealing with some of the most unrealistic, pigheaded opinions whether I wanted to or not and having to make decisions about them was ruining my enjoyment of the team. When that happens, you have two choices: Cut out the team or cut out the fans. Depending on the dynamics of the specific team, one choice is harder than the other.
But that's the thing: According to USMNT Fans On The Internet Gregg is a bad human being because he wasn't as successful at his profession as they wanted him to be. I can't abide that, no matter how much I remind myself that the internet isn't real life.