I want Gulati fired before he even sets foot back on US soil. His poor decisions are all over the miserable failure that was this cycle.
Arena "This is no time to experiment with youngsters" Proceeds to lose to an experimental, young TnT squad
Michael Bradley forking walking around instead of hurrying to take his terrible set pieces and passing back at every opportunity is going to be burned into my mind for 2 years. This is going to do so much damage in the short term.
Before we clean house and get rid of Howard, Bradley, Altidore, and the rest of the assholes that jogged their way through that game, and obviously Arena who should resign before they leave T&T, we need to get rid of Gulati. That asswipe needs to go. ALL OF THIS IS ON HIM.
I always thought it would come from the semi final round, not a hex where we get 10 games and mediocre is usually enough
Well, didn't see much fight beside wonder boy. Honduras lagged twice and fight back to win. Panama lagged once and fight back to win. I just saw too much casual and lazy old men walking around on the field.
I never take qualifying for granted. Every cycle I panic that we're going to miss out. Everyone involved with this program took qualifying for granted. They got what they deserved. I always knew this day would come. I expected that when it did I'd be absolutely distraught. I'm not even sad at all. This whole cycle was torture. How can one feel any pride in this team? We had one player who looked like he gave a damn. If the players don't care why should I? We don't deserve to go to the World Cup. US Soccer has been rotting from Gulati on down for years and this is the result.
It wasn't even a fluke. A sorry T&T team with nothing to play for toyed with the US. Start from scratch, learn how to play properly and stop wasting everyone's time.
I feel like I have posted this "context statement" a dozen times, but anyway: I was in favor of replacing JK but am no fan of Arena's. No explanation will enable me to comprehend why he started the same 11 as last match for this one. PS: not an Omar fan either but just because he "struck out in the bottom of the ninth" does not put the whole qualification cycle failure on him.
The only time I want to hear or see from Bruce again in my life is his apologies for being such a poor servant for the program this time around, undoing what he did his first tenure. It would be nice to hear Jurgen acknowledge his complicity in this as well. Dug the hole and put us way behind in integration. He shouldn't be off he hook because he's in the rear-view mirror. Finally, the hobbit, I'd like to see him squeak out a mea culpa. But I'm not holding my breath on any of those things happening. And it won't consequentially make a bit of a difference. Only thing that may is pulling off those scabs finally. The next few years of USS is going to be so depressing with this colossal failure in the background in any games. Going to take at least until next hex until games feel like they matter again. And who knows what this did for the popularity of the sport in America. We we're trying to have continual momentum and instead went reverse here.