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Steffen: "USMNT lost a year while looking for a head coach"
Posted on 4/25/20 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 4/25/20 at 3:40 pm
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Also says how we have no identity now. That whole year with Sarachen as a caretaker was the dumbest thing the federation could've done on the heels of the qualifying failure.
We're still paying for it now.
Also says how we have no identity now. That whole year with Sarachen as a caretaker was the dumbest thing the federation could've done on the heels of the qualifying failure.
We're still paying for it now.
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Posted on 4/25/20 at 3:57 pm to Broski
quote:He also said that's mostly due to the team being so young and trying to find their own feet on the international stage.
Also says how we have no identity now
Posted on 4/25/20 at 5:09 pm to pvilleguru
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He also said that's mostly due to the team being so young and trying to find their own feet on the international stage.
Which can partially attributed to not having a coach for a whole year and letting those young guys come in for no-pressure friendlies and get a feel of the system that would've been in it's beginning stages under a coach, if we hired someone two months after the T&T debacle.
Posted on 4/25/20 at 5:53 pm to Broski
Partially, but I'd still say the bigger issue has been the lack of older leadership. It's a lot easier to slowly work in a few young players and bring them up to speed when you have some good, older players to teach them the ropes, even when you have a new coach. We've kind of been forced to bring in and depend on a lot of young players at once. Part of that is because of the lack of quality older players, part is due to the ones we've had are usually injured.
Posted on 4/25/20 at 5:58 pm to pvilleguru
And on top of that, the young guys we've had to depend on the most can't seem to get out of bed without hurting something. So even they seem to be a revolving door.
Posted on 4/25/20 at 6:11 pm to pvilleguru
I mean, you can qualify it all you want, it was idiotic to wait as long as we did to hire a coach. There was nothing redeeming about it.
Posted on 4/25/20 at 7:47 pm to Broski
The year long wait would’ve been more palatable had it resulted in a homerun hire, and not a dude you could’ve hired the day after the T&T loss.
Posted on 4/25/20 at 8:01 pm to PhilipMarlowe
Yep, there's the added layer to who was hired at the end of it that makes it even more questionable.
But even so, unless we were waiting to hire someone who was currently coaching in the World Cup, all waiting that long did was take the negative feelings fans had after not qualifying and turned it into apathy.
And that is not just with managing but with executive positions as a whole.
The USSF had a real chance to flip shite upside down from the current model, but instead, it waited idly by and just hoped people would forget about the bad things (which they kind of did) only to hire people cut from the same cloth of the people who were ousted.
Just a bad, bad look all around and it has set US Soccer back a few years. All the positive momentum that was being built from 2010 on had been crushed.
But even so, unless we were waiting to hire someone who was currently coaching in the World Cup, all waiting that long did was take the negative feelings fans had after not qualifying and turned it into apathy.
And that is not just with managing but with executive positions as a whole.
The USSF had a real chance to flip shite upside down from the current model, but instead, it waited idly by and just hoped people would forget about the bad things (which they kind of did) only to hire people cut from the same cloth of the people who were ousted.
Just a bad, bad look all around and it has set US Soccer back a few years. All the positive momentum that was being built from 2010 on had been crushed.
Posted on 4/25/20 at 9:37 pm to pvilleguru
Also bc we have a manager trying to fit a square peg in a round hole
Posted on 4/26/20 at 12:39 am to Broski
Who would’ve thought that Donovan Dempsey Bradley etc. were part of our golden generation? Kind of a sad state of affairs. Even these guys were better, with next to zero organization.
We are embarrassing ourselves.
We are embarrassing ourselves.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 5:35 pm to Broski
You can tell Steffen doesn't care much for Berhalter.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 7:06 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
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Steffen
He's no JT Daniels
Posted on 4/26/20 at 10:22 pm to Broski
Posted on 4/26/20 at 11:43 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
Posted on 4/27/20 at 10:51 am to Broski
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This post was edited on 4/27/20 at 10:55 am
Posted on 4/27/20 at 1:52 pm to ezride25
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Even these guys were better, with next to zero organization.
The edge those guys had was that they played physical and played like they wanted it more. They had less talent overall but they made up with it with their drive to represent America how it should be. You wanted so bad to see these guys succeed because you knew they were going to give it their all. Not so much any more.
Posted on 4/27/20 at 3:03 pm to Broski
And now Steffen has ligament damage from training today. Seriousness is not yet known.
Posted on 4/27/20 at 4:23 pm to McCaigBro69
Gregg's shadow staff probably Tonya Harding'd him.
Posted on 4/27/20 at 9:45 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
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You can tell Steffen doesn't care much for Berhalter.
Idk about that, he basically helped him restart his career after he flopped in Europe the first go round.
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