Well...Thats is a simple question: THE HIRING AND FIRIGN OF COACHES!!! I really hope that MLS get to this level very soon, some of this mediocre coaching is really hurding soccer in USA...Even the Mexicans are getting fancy with their new aquisition: LEO BENHAKER, these taco eaters are smart enought not to be hiring Lothar Mathaus for one million bucks...SI SENOR....
More great players. (Beenhakker was a coach in mexico in 94 with America and a year later with Guadalajara. So it is not something new that they get good coaching.
If you are entertain by mediocrity I bet you Tom Hankinson is very worry about entertain anybody many of this bad coaching is really hurding soccer in USA, I really hope that MLS is aware of the situation because it seems that Don Garber is not on the chapter that talk about what to do with bad coaches "HOW TO RUN MLS FOR DUMMIES" first edition....
Whip, I'm assuming you just started watching MLS and have no previous knowledge about the Metrostars.
What are you talking about????????? What are you talking about: Mondello, Bora, and some of the others wanabe supercoaches, hey with few Brasilian stars even MY GRANNY could be a super coach...What I am talking about is be aware of the situation that MLS is into, we do not need to wait 10 games to find out who is who, if somebody lost FIVE GAMES ON A ROW hey fire the guy and get a new one, and we do not need to get fancy, we could start by NCAA soccer coaches there are few good ones A COMPUTER A FEW STATISTICS DOES NOT MAKE NOBODY A SOCCER FAN.....
Descubriste el agua tivia punetas Que tiene esto que ver con el hecho de que MLS tiene una politica equivocada hacia los entrenadores mediocres
Whip, Why didn't you stay at Soccer America Graffiti? Why did you have to bring your inane commentary to BigSoccer?
The BIGGEST difference in MLS and Euro Leagues is that the MLS is played in America and Euro leagues are played in Europe.
Descubriste el agua tivia puneton Esa de de que parte humeda la sacaste? de tu cabezita?? Where do you got this one from netin cuanto te pagan 10 la hora???
ha ha ha ha ha ha....... and also, here's you'll find thousand seats empty and there is hard to find one empty seat and here you'll see Donovan and there you won't but, you'll see Figo instead....
Re: You mean "insane" righ? Inane is not the same thing as insane. Look it up. Who's Tom Hankinson? Tim's brother?
I'm not sure what this all means, but I know it's brilliant, like a Jackson Pollock painting. It's chaos, carefully orchestrated, a seemingly meaningless string of words and non-words combining to form a message. But what is it saying? No one knows, I suppose. Simply brilliant. A masterpiece.
The biggest difference is the quantity of fans. You put MLs in packed houses week in and week out and you have a fantastic league. I mean more fantastic then it allready is.
mls needs foreign coaches mls does need foreign coaches. Im sorry but american coaches are still not up to par with even central american coaches. im not saying that all coaches in mls should be foreigners, what im saying is that mls should have some foreign coaches to raise the coaching level of the league. Better competition for the american coaches of mls can only be good for them and they can learn a lot from their foreign counterparts. one of you mentioned america getting Leo Ben Hakker (former real madrid coach). The MFL in recent years has been getting lots of foreign coaches (many argentinians). The coach of Monterrey who just became champion yesterday is coached by argentinian Passarella. MFL teams are getting big name coaches like Passarella and top competition can help mexican coaches get better.
There are many differences on the business side, like Single Entity, TV, primary/secondary sport status, etc. But on the playing side there is just one thing that I notice missing in MLS--an aerial game. Corners, crosses, headers, these just aren't done well in MLS. Accuracy on services is woeful, and the finishing is almost as bad. This tends to lead to teams being built around attacking on the ground, which in my opinion is preferable. It produces very attractive soccer. -Digital
Re: mls needs foreign coaches I'm sorry but this just doesn't seem to be true. Let's take coaches that have won multiple trophies Bruce Arena, Bob Bradley, Sigi Schmid, and ? As far as I know those are the only coaches that have won multiple trophies and they are all US raised. Or let's look at winning percentages (stats from MLSnet and may be from before this season) 1) Bruce Arena .635 61W 35L 0T 2) Sigi Schmid .616 61W 35L 16T 3) Bob Bradley .593 82W 54L 15T Once again they are all US raised Now let's look at some of the foreign names and see how they have done: Steve Nicol .543 12W 10L 1T Ray Hudson .532 36W 31L 11T Thomas Rongen .478 82W 90L 8T Carlos Alberto Parreira .406 13W 19L 0T Walter Zenga .361 13W 23L 0T Bora Milutinovic .242 8W 25L 0T I just don't see the facts supporting a big push for foreign coaches. I think the 5 MLS teams that are looking the best this year all have coaches raised in North America. Maybe Dallas, Colorado, and DC need new coaches and if they bring in a foreign coach that's great, but I'm really impressed with Chicago and NY this year and neither have foreign coaches that I know of.
I think the MLS is on the right path by having their own American coaches. In the past the MFL would bring in any foreign coach which would not amount to much. Now more and more Mexican coaches are being given opportunities and they are proving their worth like Aguirre, De la Torre, Herrera and Guzman. I think the only diffrence now is that the big clubs will only bring in foreign coaches that have proven something Internationaly like Passarella, Neri Pumpido and Beenhakker.. Dos de Asada con Chile Verde, yUM yUM
MLS is on the right path but they need to include relegation in the long run and get away from the playoff game system.. IMO.