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Yeah they tried to style on Lopetegui but he would have easily been the manager with the best pedigree to ever coach the US. Too many MAGA Cacs are involver with US Soccer and they dont know shyt about the game.
add on Osario, Tata Martino and Beisla cant even get an interview :dahell:. This american arrogance is something else, especially since the failures from the last WC qualifying. Poeple really thought an election with a new leader, a GM was gonna bring change :camby:
 

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Depending where you live there should be rec leagues for :flabbynsick:. Chances are you'll be :trash:, but it can be fun.
word.good looks.i slick really do wanna play.

i want a better understanding of the game.Real Football is the GOAT sport.and i thought it was trash like hockey and golf when i was younger.i dont understand how i didnt like it growing up

:scust: at myself for sleeping on Football
 

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Mertens got 10 CL goals. First Belgian to do that.

Hazard??? B..b..but it's the managers fault.

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Waiting on the Citeh Champions League victory :ehh:
 

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It’s a good thing cause we will develop more players

Yeah, that's better long term. MLS been around 2 decades and still hasn't produced a world class talent. A few decent players, but top teams aren't dedicating a budget to scout MLS.

Some weekends after watching European football all day I'll go watch a MLS game. The level is still shocking to me. The play is almost positionless as it's mostly energy players running around trying to win posession, getting the ball and 9/10 not doing shyt with it.
 

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Yeah they tried to style on Lopetegui but he would have easily been the manager with the best pedigree to ever coach the US. Too many MAGA Cacs are involver with US Soccer and they dont know shyt about the game.

Yeah, that's better long term. MLS been around 2 decades and still hasn't produced a world class talent. A few decent players, but top teams aren't dedicating a budget to scout MLS.

Some weekends after watching European football all day I'll go watch a MLS game. The level is still shocking to me. The play is almost positionless as it's mostly energy players running around trying to win posession, getting the ball and 9/10 not doing shyt with it.


easily the two most head scratching things in this country right now.

Michael Arace | It wasn't pretty, but US Soccer to get right coach in Crew's Gregg Berhalter

They made this whole show about finding the best coach and everything and they only considered two people? :mindblown:

If something goes awry, U.S. Soccer does not have a Plan B. Again: The process has dragged beyond two years — 734 days, as of this writing — and by all appearances there is no Plan B.

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There are plenty of national-team watchers, including prominent writers who use words such as “futbol” and “pitch,” who have pointed out the messy edges to this prolonged coaching search. Over the past week, for instance, Sports Illustrated, Yahoo and ESPN have reported that only Berhalter and former Dallas FC coach Oscar Pareja were formally interviewed for the job — and that Julen Lopetegui, the former Real Madrid and Spanish national coach, might have been interested for a hot second.

Stewart has been criticized for passing on interviewing any number of qualified candidates — See: Tab Ramos, who coached the national U-20 teams to back-to-back CONCACAF championships and knows the American talent pipeline as well as anyone. He didn’t even get a sit-down.

Neither did interim coach Dave Sarachan, Atlanta United coach Tata Martino, Sporting KC coach Peter Vermes or Paraguay national coach Juan Carlos Osorio. (It was Osorio who, in his former station as Mexico’s national coach, halted the U.S. “dos-a-cero” dominance at Crew Stadium, marking the beginning of the end for Klinsmann.)

:wtf:


As for MLS, I still remember when there were 10 teams and the play was slowly improving by year, bums were slowly being phased out.

Now they're trying to get to 28 teams in 4 years after years and tears of "we're not trying to recklessly expand like the NASL" ... :what:
No real plans, just expand, just because ... when that wasn't good enough years ago.
 

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They still good, but out of the 3 firmino seems to have fallen off the most. they better beat napoli thats all i know. :martin:

IMO, it's a combination of, the wear and tear of Klopp's pressing style, lack of rotation and the World Cup as to why Liverpool's front 3 aren't firing like last season.
 

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easily the two most head scratching things in this country right now.

Michael Arace | It wasn't pretty, but US Soccer to get right coach in Crew's Gregg Berhalter

They made this whole show about finding the best coach and everything and they only considered two people? :mindblown:



:wtf:


As for MLS, I still remember when there were 10 teams and the play was slowly improving by year, bums were slowly being phased out.

Now they're trying to get to 28 teams in 4 years after years and tears of "we're not trying to recklessly expand like the NASL" ... :what:
No real plans, just expand, just because ... when that wasn't good enough years ago.

I thought Stewart with his background, would be different, but just another sheep. :francis:
 

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USSF was never hiring a coach that would demand more of them. They don’t want some foreign coach calling out their structure or how they operate or telling players to go to Europe. Too many people are invested and eating off the current structure.

I don’t have an issue with an MLS coach, I wouldn’t have done it but you can find good coaches in a lot of places.
 

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MLS has improved but lowkey its because of foreign players. don't know much about the new USMNT coach but i hope fo god he pushes Americans to play overseas and doesn't favor garabage like Jordan "Ma Dawg" Morris or Zardes or any other MLS scrub
 
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