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Post by rifle on Nov 20, 2016 10:10:01 GMT -5
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Post by zizou on Nov 21, 2016 8:36:48 GMT -5
Meh. I am not so sure. This sounds like JK blowing more smoke to deflect criticism from his deep coaching ineptitude. It is always the players for him. There are plenty of entitled youth in other countries.
I will say this in JK defense. The gulf between reservoirs of talent in USA and real soccer nations has nothing to do with him; that can be placed firmly at feet of USSF at this point. Total lack of grass roots plan, no effective leadership (and I mean by implementing real plans that involve clubs doing things properly for the U-littles), self-serving bloviating by people like JK and queen april (note no caps) on how to improve our soccer development. All of it misses the boat, passes the buck, and essentially dooms US Soccer for years to come. I hope I am wrong, but trends are not encouraging. Sad that USSF has had same leadership that is totally about dollars not development ever since we voted an economist into power.
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Post by soccerfan30 on Nov 21, 2016 10:24:42 GMT -5
Ad much as we rave about Christian Pulisic bring the future of US Soccer, the top countries have hundreds if not thousands of players with his capabilities. You could get Pep Guardiola to coach the USMNT but his coaching will not be as impactful because we simply don't have the players and in 20 years I'm not sure if we still will.
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Post by rifle on Nov 21, 2016 18:10:26 GMT -5
US Men's soccer has structural issues, and it starts with pay to play making soccer a country club sport. It ends with our D1 pro league that is more interested in balance sheets than competition. JK is right on competitive realities, of players being satisfied rather than hungry... He just wasn't able to impart his knowledge on his players. He tried and couldn't. Hopefully the next guy will be able to stitch the right parts together to catch more than just minnows.
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