Finally. Guy was trash from the beginning. His formation, playing style, overall tactics and substitutions were NOT what it takes to succeed as a manager of a national team.
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Berhalter might have been the worst coach I've ever seen in any sport at any level.
I don't know about that. I had a pretty bad youth baseball coach when I was in 4th grade. Still remember him. Mr. Rice. Really nice guy but just couldn't coach worth a crap, and of course, his son thought he was the best player on the team.
He really got caught up in the modern belief that coaches need to flaunt their intellectual bonafides, thus, the leadership conferences, the pseudo psychology navel gazing and babble. The emperor had no clothes and each important match showed it.
Berhalter might have been the worst coach I've ever seen in any sport at any level.
I don't know about that. I had a pretty bad youth baseball coach when I was in 4th grade. Still remember him. Mr. Rice. Really nice guy but just couldn't coach worth a crap, and of course, his son thought he was the best player on the team.
Berhalter was giving a pro sports team offensive and defensive schemes that a 4th grade soccer coach would implement for people who have never played soccer before.
If he hadn't been rehired I think he would have been looked back on far more favorably. Coaches should only get 2nd cycles if their 1st is exceptionally good.
If he hadn't been rehired I think he would have been looked back on far more favorably. Coaches should only get 2nd cycles if their 1st is exceptionally good.
Yeah I think the common thought of most long time supporters when he was re-hired was one of "Huh?".
Its kind of "par for the course" for USSF to spend months and months figuring out if he was the right person to lead the team only to fire him barely a year later. Had they had institutional competency, they would have not re-hired him and the USMNT would be a year plus into a new coach rather than a complete switch of gears (and coach) less than 2 years from a World Cup you are co-hosting.
Would a new coach have prevented the disaster that was their showing at Copa America? No idea but at least it would have given a new coach some really high level games in a tournament setting to work with before the World Cup. Now a new coach gets 2 years of the worthless Gold Cup games against the crap that is Concacaf and friendlies where you hope to get a top level team and they bring their A Team which doesn't happen very often.
He really got caught up in the modern belief that coaches need to flaunt their intellectual bonafides, thus, the leadership conferences, the pseudo psychology navel gazing and babble. The emperor had no clothes and each important match showed it.
You are correct about him having no clothes - at least clothes of quality. I just want a coach that won't wear a tshirt to the matches.
Gregg sullied any good will he had after he bragged about benching gio and sending him home from a conference. Coaches can’t do players dirty like that and retain the fan base. What gios parents did was indefensible and gio has been rinsed thoroughly. But the previous offense stands
Klopp seems not to be interested. Hopefully they'll keep looking for the best coach available rather than taking some MLS guy without a serious search.
No way are they hiring Mourinho for the simple reason is the US players would complain he is too tough on them.
More than likely, they'll go with Steve Cherundolo. He's familiar with the USMNT as having played for it. He's got European playing experience (stalwart with Hannover in Germany). He'd also be an affordable choice. Would it excite the USMNT fan base as much as a big name? Probably not but he's great at making in game adjustments and knows tactics.
Joachim Löw would be a great choice. Great manager. Great player developer. Makes great in game adjustments. My guess is someone at USSF is going to squash this after giving the reigns to another German, Jurgen Klinsmann and seeing how Klinsmann fought with USSF over the youth system, promoting MLS players, etc.
Most of the "big name" European coaches who are available are looooooong shots. This includes: Tuchel (Didn't get along with USMNT Golden Boy Pulisic for the same reason as Mourinho above)
Pochettino (No international experience and not sure his physical and aggressive all game long well works with a national team)
Zidane (Can pick and choose whatever team he wants...and probably is going to want to walk into a better/more organzied/unified front office than the dumpster fire that is USSF)
Thierry Henry (He's had 2 head coaching gigs at club level and has been poor at both)
Finally. Guy was trash from the beginning. His formation, playing style, overall tactics and substitutions were NOT what it takes to succeed as a manager of a national team.
Hate to tell you this - who the USMNT coach is means nothing. Go out and get Klopp - it doesn't change the fact that US simply does not have a culture in the sport of soccer that will ever create a transcendent world talent (or group of) that makes a difference to your national team.
Because while 8-10 year old kids here are doing passing drills in their monotonously structured soccer camps run by inflexible middle aged white men, kids in Europe and South America are learning the game in playgrounds and on streets, fostering the creativity and the X factor that helps them become difference makers on a club and international level in the most important moments of games and tournaments.
In the US you have solid fundamental players that know how to play the game one way. And when teams know how to stop that (aka every top 10-15 team in world football and even some worse team like, ahem, Panama) your players are clueless ho to adapt and overcome it. Who the coach is has ultimately little impact on that.
Finally. Guy was trash from the beginning. His formation, playing style, overall tactics and substitutions were NOT what it takes to succeed as a manager of a national team.
Hate to tell you this - who the USMNT coach is means nothing. Go out and get Klopp - it doesn't change the fact that US simply does not have a culture in the sport of soccer that will ever create a transcendent world talent (or group of) that makes a difference to your national team.
Because while 8-10 year old kids here are doing passing drills in their monotonously structured soccer camps run by inflexible middle aged white men, kids in Europe and South America are learning the game in playgrounds and on streets, fostering the creativity and the X factor that helps them become difference makers on a club and international level in the most important moments of games and tournaments.
In the US you have solid fundamental players that know how to play the game one way. And when teams know how to stop that (aka every top 10-15 team in world football and even some worse team like, ahem, Panama) your players are clueless ho to adapt and overcome it. Who the coach is has ultimately little impact on that.
No way are they hiring Mourinho for the simple reason is the US players would complain he is too tough on them.
More than likely, they'll go with Steve Cherundolo. He's familiar with the USMNT as having played for it. He's got European playing experience (stalwart with Hannover in Germany). He'd also be an affordable choice. Would it excite the USMNT fan base as much as a big name? Probably not but he's great at making in game adjustments and knows tactics.
Joachim Löw would be a great choice. Great manager. Great player developer. Makes great in game adjustments. My guess is someone at USSF is going to squash this after giving the reigns to another German, Jurgen Klinsmann and seeing how Klinsmann fought with USSF over the youth system, promoting MLS players, etc.
Most of the "big name" European coaches who are available are looooooong shots. This includes: Tuchel (Didn't get along with USMNT Golden Boy Pulisic for the same reason as Mourinho above)
Pochettino (No international experience and not sure his physical and aggressive all game long well works with a national team)
Zidane (Can pick and choose whatever team he wants...and probably is going to want to walk into a better/more organzied/unified front office than the dumpster fire that is USSF)
Thierry Henry (He's had 2 head coaching gigs at club level and has been poor at both)
What do you think of Hervé Renard? He's had a bunch of international jobs and it seems like Morocco was his only bad one of them. I also wouldn't hate Pioli.
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I'd absolutely take Renard as HC. Great manager. Has had success at every national team he's coached. Heck the guy beat Argentina at the last World Cup.
He's got a pretty good gig going as HC of the French women's national team.
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