The German top scorer Klose was 20 when he first played in the 3rd league (Regional-Liga). Then he went to Kaiserslautern where he mostly played with the amateur team, but also got his first 2 matches in the Bundesliga. In 2014, he ended his career for the national team as record goal scorer. Although germany has a great talent scoring system, many players simply work all their way up from a lower league or from the amateur and youth teams. The US Soccer League is without supporting substructure. You need thos lower leagues where talents can show their talents and where they simply learn it by doing it.
T&T is not the worst team in the CONCACAF region, we were the worst in the Hex but the six best teams in the CONCACAF region were the ones which made it to the Hex. Once we get our administrative problems sorted out and play enough quality friendlies, T&T can be much better than we were in this latest Hex as we never really played to our full potential hence why we ended up last in the Hex.
Trinidad loaded with Talent. This administrative problems that you mention is typical of the Carib Teams, Trinidad and them will forever be one step behind.
If I was in charge, I would have the US national team play in MLS and be mostly a college all-star team. And I would give the other MLS teams some kind of incentive for beating them, with the hope that would toughen them up. After a few years, they should be in top shape to qualify for the world cup, and make some noise in it.
Trinidad and tobago in 1990 were in the same boat USA were in on october 10 2017. Only needing a draw to qualify to go to the world cup for the first time in our tiny country history. We lost one nill. So we have some idea what the USA fans going through. But its a kick in the butt. We eventually qualified .. so to other countries in our reason. Its not the worst thing to happen to USA soccer....it might be the best thing.
1969 the same thing happened to Haiti against El Salvador in stoppage time, people are still in mourning over that one. Football is like that, I guest that's why it is so exciting. There are practically no other sport with such drama. The last WC was decided by one goal.
They don't play with pride unlike other countries. When Argentina recently played peru, they were facing elimination from the world cup and Fernando Gago from Argentina ruptured his knee ligaments. While the medics were helping him on the ground they told him he couldn't continue yet he kept yelling "I don't care let me play!". Just look up Fernando Gago vs peru
It's not just at the national level. I was trying out for my high school team and out of 27 players who tried out I was literally the only one who was cut. It didn't matter how many assists I set up or how hard I played. I didn't run the 2 mile in under 10 minutes, and I wasn't fast enough I wasn't tall enough but on the break I would foul to slow up the transition I would block off the most probable cross opportunity I did the proper soccer play. Instead they picked those prep kids who had a personal relationship with the coach because they were in his club team. Not to mention the kid was pure trash. I managed that team after being cut and I saw pure trash and even worse a kid come in after tryouts and didn't have to try out made starter he was fast he could do all the tricks but he could not defend for his life he didn't make that extra pass outside the box. He had such great talent but no ethics. The coach often pointed to me as someone who worked hard and if I had the talent I would be a great player and they should learn from me. Obviously I would be upset because if my work ethic was so great you would have put me on the team even if I never saw the field. That team literally won 4 games in a 20 game season. I'm not saying I would have made us champions but at least I could have encouraged a culture of professionalism.
There is track speed and stopwatch speed, then there is game speed. I played w/kids as fast as me on the stopwatch, but slower than hell in a game. Its a totally different kind of skill. Change of direction, anticipation, acceleration, etc. USMNT lacks quick burst and spurtability.
You said it best man on the cherry picking part of the players!!!All guys in the team are good, or can be better with more competition within the team. I seen this at the academy levels when you go in as a new guy, its like you are outside of a bubble and you need to make noise in order to get looked at..
Nice to see you're a football fan. Edit: Altidore's laziness should've been like Balotelli's; he scored goals but never came back to help defend. Which is why he hasn't been called to the Italy NT. Edit 2: Altidore's thinking that he gets more chances is also what's wrong with Argentina's NT forwards. They're thinking that if they don't make their score on their first attempt, that it's cool because they have Messi on their team and he'll feed them all day. Too bad Pulisic is no Messi. Edit 3: Although I'm 21, I would like to be part of this revamp. Sign me up coach!
Hey mate, I feel your pain and I can relate with putting more effort in. I'm not American but I was rooting for the US to make the World Cup because I love your soccer fans. I also saw the highlights and saw some of the lack of work ethic that you described. I also don't know about the entirety of the problem with developing soccer players in the US but I have watched a ton of videos and commentary that outlines some of the issues especially on the Seattle Sounders boards (they are my MLS team) so I feel like I know some of them. You touch on another with the elite program being like an 'in' club. However I do think you are mistaken about going primarily to players that can grind. Honestly, at national level, I should think that should be a given.. Why would a player need to be told to give a 100% when he is representing his NATION? When he is doing something that millions of his peers would give their eyetooth to be able to do? What I expect is quality above just that grind. I expect you to be able to make basic passes and triangle passes when there is no pressure on the ball, but I also expect a national team quality midfielder to be able to pick a forward pass through the lanes when the opponents are defending deep. Fine not everyone is Messi or Iniesta or David Silva, so they won't thread the needle past 4 or 5 guys into a spot maybe 2 yards square, but at least be able to find a runner over the top or play to the wing. The problem with grunt effort only is that you work hard and make yourself hard to beat with just the effort but the great teams will pick you apart and you may not have the quality to respond. So whilst I agree with the general thrust of your video, I still think identifying 'ball' players is a big part. Sure get ball players who will also put in a shift, but often enough, a lazy but brilliant ball player (think Pirlo... didn't do that much running or Ozil) still tears mediocre teams a new a##hole. The waterloo for such players is when they run into equally skilled teams that put in a shift too.
Mls is still the problem,,,many of our stars that failed in November came home from Europe to play club ball and think that hindered there development...if you have the talent....stay in Europe is all I ask.
Chris one should avoid speaking with anger, you are clearly upset about this lost, allow me to clarify to you that the US played a good concacaf match like they have been doing since '94, what they put out that night was more than enough for the usual Tie against Trinidad on the road, we forget sometime that the Ball is not a perfect sphere and the pitch is not an even surface. These players you are bashing have been carrying the US flag very strongly in concacaf the US is number one in this sub par region for a reason. The rest of the concacaf teams with positive results have their stars players playing in the big Euro leagues perhaps we need to go back to Europe, we use to be much stronger when our big guys use to play over there. Forget about this for now get ready to watch the WC. US will qualify for the next one.
I found interesting Chris your elaboration of an assumed connection between the elite 14-year-old travel team players and their attitudes later on MNT as having been "pre-selected" by USSF and then "too expensive a time/$$ commitment to let go". Seems there might be something there in the number of journeyman players who are overlooked but who understand ordinary soccer and can execute on the ball and understand tactics and how to adjust to game situations. One of the ironies in soccer is that on-field "soccer-sense" is often developed most keenly by players who aren't the most naturally gifted soccer athletes -- because without it they'd never make the first team. Yet these guys never seem good enough to make the national team, so we end up with national team players who seem athlete's first and soccer players second. The ball is always bouncing around for lack of poor skills or guys don't see the uselessness of dribbling against 3-4 players (Nagbe) on the other team because they actually *don't see them* because they never learned how to scan the field properly, or attackers on opposing team get open too much because our guys are ball-watching. (If you analyze MLS you can see that about 1/3 of all goals scored are because the scorer was allowed at some point to run free). And on it goes -- all the ordinary things that your "blue collar" players do as a matter of habit USMNT first stringer are never seen doing or sort of "learning on the job" as guys who -- having played in journeyman leagues in Europe -- are always yelling and pointing out to their teammates who haven't. (When was the last time you saw anyone on USMNT use a back-heel pass to deftly get out of pressure? Yet this is common fare for guys who are a step slow on the ball.) Altidore skies the ball over the goal -- a perfect example of missing skills. "Keep knee over the ball. Lean forward for shot." Basics. Bobby Wood gets this. Defensive team pressure -- everyone marks up together, missing on team USA. Work rate and missing "blue collar" effort I also found interesting. Seems there's something there as well -- often shows up as lack of U.S. pressure on the ball. Watch Alvin Jones cross the ball for Omar Gonzalez own goal -- you can see the US defender, #15, having taken an extra deep step toward the endline, believes that Alvin is going to try to strike a cross at the 6y yard box -- which will put his face in a direct line. So what does he do? He turns his face and body sideways to get out of the line of fire. This is not a blue collar soccer move. I am a blue collar soccer player who played high school and college ball (midfield). What you do in such a situation is launch yourself directly into the line of fire and *prevent* a cross from ever getting near the penalty area. Crosses are dangerous. Goals get scored off them. Yes, you sometimes will take it in the face (had this happen once, it means and ice pack on your face for 5 minutes, then back on the field) but you prevent the opposition from developing a scoring chance. Yes to the sense of malaise and lack of passion from our players. Yes to lack of support from teammates for one another. We see alot of guys marking space, but in certain defensive situations, you abandon space and put two (or three) guys on the ball to break the opponent's attack -- there's no use watching your teammate 5 yards away from you struggle to contain Lionel Messi -- you go help. USA vs. T&T should have looked something like Barcelona vs. Hull City FC, and at various times, you could see our advantage in terms of speed and agility. But USA comes out blasting, Altidore misses an opportunity, and team goes into a 30 minute funk and down 2-0. And even Hull City can beat Barcelona if they go up 2-0 and can hold the lead until halftime -- and USA is no Barcelona. Team USA, it is the World Cup. Teams with strategy, discipline, skills and passion who execute the game plan win. Those that don't, go home. "Strategy" belongs to coach, but discipline, skills and passion belong to players. Also, it's clear that a number of teams in WC qualifiers were committed to a strategy of intentionally injuring Pulisic, putting him out of the match, potentially injuring him for life. I was amazed that Pulisic's on-field teammates didn't support him more -- in recognition of how important he is to its success. Nobody seems to have learned that in such situations, you need to send a message to the opposing team. Dempsey used to do this for the U.S. -- seems like no one is filling this role. There are ways to do this in a legal way -- jarring body collisions by some other big-bodied forward (hello Jozy) come to mind, but it seems Altidore doesn't get it. Jozy is happy to put away ball on a platter crosses from Pulisic (Panama, 2-0), but did you notice that Pulusic does all the work to get the cross perfectly to Jozy for the tap in and after scoring Jozy turns away from Pulusic and towards the fans for adulation. Where team cohesion exists, and in most other leagues, the scorer in such a situation immediately turns to the passer and assister of the goal to acknowledge the value of the contribution. Not so much here with Jozy. Passion not evident as team concept among all players. We will know passion is back when we see a player wearing USMNT jersey launch himself from penalty spot in a flying header, miss, and end up entangled in the back of the other teams onion bag. When we see that, we'll know US Soccer is back. Also, as big supported of the US Women's National Soccer team, I don't see any utility in calling our men's team "soft and pussified" when they play without passion. If our men's team played like the pussies the women's team are, we'd be winning the World Cup and pussies would be seen as valuable, and getting hard all the time would seen as problematic and an obstacle to execution and victory on the pitch. (Nice Red Car. )
I think it was 50/50...The Federation brought him in and didn't really support his ideas of implementing academies everywhere and other ideas that worked in Europe but federation and MLS weren't helping him. I feel like some players werent really suitable for the system...2013 gold cup when we were playing beautiful attacking fut in concacaf dnt know if you recall that period.
I don’t disagree with tnt been the worse team in the hex however we are certainly not worse in the region. Dubious calls all the way back to the first game va Honduras. Disallowed goals vs Mexico and clear penalty vs Costa Rica sunk us. I call this poor officials and bad luck. TNT best Panama easy, I guess every team in the hex deserved respect as they did everything to quality but in the end only 3.5 could
And you're spoiling them by pampering them? Dude you're ruining their careers. Treating kids like they are some princes without a crown is the reason why the US didn't qualify in the first place.
Didnt think I needed to specify I was referring to the hex. Nobody even follows WC qualifying before that b/c the last group stage is almost pre-determined from a pool of about 9-10 countries. All the other countries have no chance. T&T is better than Montserrat. But Montserrat is never going to make the final CONCACAF group stage, nevermind threaten to make it. Most CONCACAF countries are no better than mid-level college teams. The purposes of competitiveness, nothing happens until the hex. If you dont make the hex, you aren't even really an international program, let alone regional.
So all of a sudden this dude is THE expert in football, FYI PATRIOTISM DOES NOT WIN GAMES MUCH LESS TOURNAMENTS, IT ALSO CANNOT DESIGN GAME STRATEGY. I order to win games and consequently tournaments you need talent plus technical skill and the only way to get that is scouting, work with players as young as 6 or 7 yrs and start the most talented in professional games right at 15 or 16 yrs old. Expose those with talent so they can be seen and perhaps recruited by European teams. Other than that USA will continue to be on the same level!
Where was all this "analysis and anger" prior to the US losing ? You're playing Monday morning quarterback. You didn't say anything all these years, and now you put your mug on youtube and talk like you totally saw this coming.
Great video.
The German top scorer Klose was 20 when he first played in the 3rd league (Regional-Liga). Then he went to Kaiserslautern where he mostly played with the amateur team, but also got his first 2 matches in the Bundesliga. In 2014, he ended his career for the national team as record goal scorer.
Although germany has a great talent scoring system, many players simply work all their way up from a lower league or from the amateur and youth teams. The US Soccer League is without supporting substructure. You need thos lower leagues where talents can show their talents and where they simply learn it by doing it.
As a Trinidadian, I kind of feel offended. Why are Americans raging over this?
T&T is not the worst team in the CONCACAF region, we were the worst in the Hex but the six best teams in the CONCACAF region were the ones which made it to the Hex. Once we get our administrative problems sorted out and play enough quality friendlies, T&T can be much better than we were in this latest Hex as we never really played to our full potential hence why we ended up last in the Hex.
Trinidad loaded with Talent. This administrative problems that you mention is typical of the Carib Teams, Trinidad and them will forever be one step behind.
Good Analysis!
I can't believe someone like Beasley was still on the roster. This team was way too old, I hope the whole system/team is revamped.
If I was in charge, I would have the US national team play in MLS and be mostly a college all-star team. And I would give the other MLS teams some kind of incentive for beating them, with the hope that would toughen them up. After a few years, they should be in top shape to qualify for the world cup, and make some noise in it.
Unfortunately the disdain for soccer, the federation puts a provisional team and this is the result of that attitude.
Trinidad and tobago in 1990 were in the same boat USA were in on october 10 2017. Only needing a draw to qualify to go to the world cup for the first time in our tiny country history. We lost one nill. So we have some idea what the USA fans going through. But its a kick in the butt. We eventually qualified .. so to other countries in our reason. Its not the worst thing to happen to USA soccer....it might be the best thing.
1969 the same thing happened to Haiti against El Salvador in stoppage time, people are still in mourning over that one. Football is like that, I guest that's why it is so exciting. There are practically no other sport with such drama. The last WC was decided by one goal.
They don't play with pride unlike other countries. When Argentina recently played peru, they were facing elimination from the world cup and Fernando Gago from Argentina ruptured his knee ligaments. While the medics were helping him on the ground they told him he couldn't continue yet he kept yelling "I don't care let me play!". Just look up Fernando Gago vs peru
It's not just at the national level. I was trying out for my high school team and out of 27 players who tried out I was literally the only one who was cut. It didn't matter how many assists I set up or how hard I played. I didn't run the 2 mile in under 10 minutes, and I wasn't fast enough I wasn't tall enough but on the break I would foul to slow up the transition I would block off the most probable cross opportunity I did the proper soccer play. Instead they picked those prep kids who had a personal relationship with the coach because they were in his club team. Not to mention the kid was pure trash. I managed that team after being cut and I saw pure trash and even worse a kid come in after tryouts and didn't have to try out made starter he was fast he could do all the tricks but he could not defend for his life he didn't make that extra pass outside the box. He had such great talent but no ethics. The coach often pointed to me as someone who worked hard and if I had the talent I would be a great player and they should learn from me. Obviously I would be upset because if my work ethic was so great you would have put me on the team even if I never saw the field. That team literally won 4 games in a 20 game season. I'm not saying I would have made us champions but at least I could have encouraged a culture of professionalism.
There is track speed and stopwatch speed, then there is game speed. I played w/kids as fast as me on the stopwatch, but slower than hell in a game. Its a totally different kind of skill. Change of direction, anticipation, acceleration, etc. USMNT lacks quick burst and spurtability.
“Soccer”
You said it best man on the cherry picking part of the players!!!All guys in the team are good, or can be better with more competition within the team. I seen this at the academy levels when you go in as a new guy, its like you are outside of a bubble and you need to make noise in order to get looked at..
Nice to see you're a football fan.
Edit: Altidore's laziness should've been like Balotelli's; he scored goals but never came back to help defend. Which is why he hasn't been called to the Italy NT.
Edit 2: Altidore's thinking that he gets more chances is also what's wrong with Argentina's NT forwards. They're thinking that if they don't make their score on their first attempt, that it's cool because they have Messi on their team and he'll feed them all day. Too bad Pulisic is no Messi.
Edit 3: Although I'm 21, I would like to be part of this revamp. Sign me up coach!
Maybe if Balotelli came back then Italy would have qualified
Which car in background??
tbh even if they qualified, I dont think they deserved to win, because of how poorly they performed.
SSAGames u couldn't tbh, mediocre team
Hey mate, I feel your pain and I can relate with putting more effort in. I'm not American but I was rooting for the US to make the World Cup because I love your soccer fans. I also saw the highlights and saw some of the lack of work ethic that you described.
I also don't know about the entirety of the problem with developing soccer players in the US but I have watched a ton of videos and commentary that outlines some of the issues especially on the Seattle Sounders boards (they are my MLS team) so I feel like I know some of them. You touch on another with the elite program being like an 'in' club. However I do think you are mistaken about going primarily to players that can grind. Honestly, at national level, I should think that should be a given.. Why would a player need to be told to give a 100% when he is representing his NATION? When he is doing something that millions of his peers would give their eyetooth to be able to do? What I expect is quality above just that grind. I expect you to be able to make basic passes and triangle passes when there is no pressure on the ball, but I also expect a national team quality midfielder to be able to pick a forward pass through the lanes when the opponents are defending deep. Fine not everyone is Messi or Iniesta or David Silva, so they won't thread the needle past 4 or 5 guys into a spot maybe 2 yards square, but at least be able to find a runner over the top or play to the wing. The problem with grunt effort only is that you work hard and make yourself hard to beat with just the effort but the great teams will pick you apart and you may not have the quality to respond. So whilst I agree with the general thrust of your video, I still think identifying 'ball' players is a big part. Sure get ball players who will also put in a shift, but often enough, a lazy but brilliant ball player (think Pirlo... didn't do that much running or Ozil) still tears mediocre teams a new a##hole. The waterloo for such players is when they run into equally skilled teams that put in a shift too.
Mls is still the problem,,,many of our stars that failed in November came home from Europe to play club ball and think that hindered there development...if you have the talent....stay in Europe is all I ask.
Chris one should avoid speaking with anger, you are clearly upset about this lost, allow me to clarify to you that the US played a good concacaf match like they have been doing since '94, what they put out that night was more than enough for the usual Tie against Trinidad on the road, we forget sometime that the Ball is not a perfect sphere and the pitch is not an even surface. These players you are bashing have been carrying the US flag very strongly in concacaf the US is number one in this sub par region for a reason. The rest of the concacaf teams with positive results have their stars players playing in the big Euro leagues perhaps we need to go back to Europe, we use to be much stronger when our big guys use to play over there. Forget about this for now get ready to watch the WC. US will qualify for the next one.
I agree what eveything you had to say
I found interesting Chris your elaboration of an assumed connection between the elite 14-year-old travel team players and their attitudes later on MNT as having been "pre-selected" by USSF and then "too expensive a time/$$ commitment to let go". Seems there might be something there in the number of journeyman players who are overlooked but who understand ordinary soccer and can execute on the ball and understand tactics and how to adjust to game situations. One of the ironies in soccer is that on-field "soccer-sense" is often developed most keenly by players who aren't the most naturally gifted soccer athletes -- because without it they'd never make the first team. Yet these guys never seem good enough to make the national team, so we end up with national team players who seem athlete's first and soccer players second. The ball is always bouncing around for lack of poor skills or guys don't see the uselessness of dribbling against 3-4 players (Nagbe) on the other team because they actually *don't see them* because they never learned how to scan the field properly, or attackers on opposing team get open too much because our guys are ball-watching. (If you analyze MLS you can see that about 1/3 of all goals scored are because the scorer was allowed at some point to run free). And on it goes -- all the ordinary things that your "blue collar" players do as a matter of habit USMNT first stringer are never seen doing or sort of "learning on the job" as guys who -- having played in journeyman leagues in Europe -- are always yelling and pointing out to their teammates who haven't. (When was the last time you saw anyone on USMNT use a back-heel pass to deftly get out of pressure? Yet this is common fare for guys who are a step slow on the ball.) Altidore skies the ball over the goal -- a perfect example of missing skills. "Keep knee over the ball. Lean forward for shot." Basics. Bobby Wood gets this. Defensive team pressure -- everyone marks up together, missing on team USA.
Work rate and missing "blue collar" effort I also found interesting. Seems there's something there as well -- often shows up as lack of U.S. pressure on the ball.
Watch Alvin Jones cross the ball for Omar Gonzalez own goal -- you can see the US defender, #15, having taken an extra deep step toward the endline, believes that Alvin is going to try to strike a cross at the 6y yard box -- which will put his face in a direct line. So what does he do? He turns his face and body sideways to get out of the line of fire. This is not a blue collar soccer move. I am a blue collar soccer player who played high school and college ball (midfield). What you do in such a situation is launch yourself directly into the line of fire and *prevent* a cross from ever getting near the penalty area. Crosses are dangerous. Goals get scored off them. Yes, you sometimes will take it in the face (had this happen once, it means and ice pack on your face for 5 minutes, then back on the field) but you prevent the opposition from developing a scoring chance.
Yes to the sense of malaise and lack of passion from our players. Yes to lack of support from teammates for one another. We see alot of guys marking space, but in certain defensive situations, you abandon space and put two (or three) guys on the ball to break the opponent's attack -- there's no use watching your teammate 5 yards away from you struggle to contain Lionel Messi -- you go help.
USA vs. T&T should have looked something like Barcelona vs. Hull City FC, and at various times, you could see our advantage in terms of speed and agility. But USA comes out blasting, Altidore misses an opportunity, and team goes into a 30 minute funk and down 2-0. And even Hull City can beat Barcelona if they go up 2-0 and can hold the lead until halftime -- and USA is no Barcelona. Team USA, it is the World Cup. Teams with strategy, discipline, skills and passion who execute the game plan win. Those that don't, go home. "Strategy" belongs to coach, but discipline, skills and passion belong to players.
Also, it's clear that a number of teams in WC qualifiers were committed to a strategy of intentionally injuring Pulisic, putting him out of the match, potentially injuring him for life. I was amazed that Pulisic's on-field teammates didn't support him more -- in recognition of how important he is to its success. Nobody seems to have learned that in such situations, you need to send a message to the opposing team. Dempsey used to do this for the U.S. -- seems like no one is filling this role. There are ways to do this in a legal way -- jarring body collisions by some other big-bodied forward (hello Jozy) come to mind, but it seems Altidore doesn't get it. Jozy is happy to put away ball on a platter crosses from Pulisic (Panama, 2-0), but did you notice that Pulusic does all the work to get the cross perfectly to Jozy for the tap in and after scoring Jozy turns away from Pulusic and towards the fans for adulation. Where team cohesion exists, and in most other leagues, the scorer in such a situation immediately turns to the passer and assister of the goal to acknowledge the value of the contribution. Not so much here with Jozy.
Passion not evident as team concept among all players. We will know passion is back when we see a player wearing USMNT jersey launch himself from penalty spot in a flying header, miss, and end up entangled in the back of the other teams onion bag. When we see that, we'll know US Soccer is back.
Also, as big supported of the US Women's National Soccer team, I don't see any utility in calling our men's team "soft and pussified" when they play without passion. If our men's team played like the pussies the women's team are, we'd be winning the World Cup and pussies would be seen as valuable, and getting hard all the time would seen as problematic and an obstacle to execution and victory on the pitch.
(Nice Red Car. )
Did Klinsmann fail or did he not get the support from the Federation that he needed? Did the players buy into what he was trying to do?
I think it was 50/50...The Federation brought him in and didn't really support his ideas of implementing academies everywhere and other ideas that worked in Europe but federation and MLS weren't helping him. I feel like some players werent really suitable for the system...2013 gold cup when we were playing beautiful attacking fut in concacaf dnt know if you recall that period.
Don't feel bad it's not like you had a chance of winning the WC anyways! #Trinidad&TobagoSocaWarriors
I don’t disagree with tnt been the worse team in the hex however we are certainly not worse in the region. Dubious calls all the way back to the first game va Honduras. Disallowed goals vs Mexico and clear penalty vs Costa Rica sunk us. I call this poor officials and bad luck. TNT best Panama easy, I guess every team in the hex deserved respect as they did everything to quality but in the end only 3.5 could
There are kids I'm coaching in rec soccer that would be incredible players if they could get the coaching like the kids in "the system".
And you're spoiling them by pampering them? Dude you're ruining their careers. Treating kids like they are some princes without a crown is the reason why the US didn't qualify in the first place.
Huh? I don't know where you're coming from.
Not the worst team in CONCACAF....they were 6th jerk
Didnt think I needed to specify I was referring to the hex. Nobody even follows WC qualifying before that b/c the last group stage is almost pre-determined from a pool of about 9-10 countries. All the other countries have no chance. T&T is better than Montserrat. But Montserrat is never going to make the final CONCACAF group stage, nevermind threaten to make it. Most CONCACAF countries are no better than mid-level college teams. The purposes of competitiveness, nothing happens until the hex. If you dont make the hex, you aren't even really an international program, let alone regional.
So all of a sudden this dude is THE expert in football, FYI PATRIOTISM DOES NOT WIN GAMES MUCH LESS TOURNAMENTS, IT ALSO CANNOT DESIGN GAME STRATEGY. I order to win games and consequently tournaments you need talent plus technical skill and the only way to get that is scouting, work with players as young as 6 or 7 yrs and start the most talented in professional games right at 15 or 16 yrs old. Expose those with talent so they can be seen and perhaps recruited by European teams. Other than that USA will continue to be on the same level!
Futbal is exciting to watch!other sport just boring thumps up video start teaching youngs kids
No relevant player in the world of soccer has been to college. Lol again this is the problem with US soccer people like this guy
Where was all this "analysis and anger" prior to the US losing ? You're playing Monday morning quarterback. You didn't say anything all these years, and now you put your mug on youtube and talk like you totally saw this coming.