Originally posted by Unregistered
View Post
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
Team USA.
Collapse
X
-
Unregistered
- Quote
-
Unregistered
Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThe DA program takes out the all important winning mentality. It strips out the feisty tournaments and trophies that teach kids resiliency and how to win. It takes away all the fun. The leadership and coaching leave a lot to be desired.
The competition seems to be against each other for playing time and they don’t seem to have any team unity.
Throw another bag of crap on this dumpster fire.
- Quote
Comment
-
Unregistered
Without commenting on the broader "what's wrong with the USMNT?" discussion.
For a very long time, the US has been blessed by a string of world-class, or near world-class, keepers. Meola. Friedel. Keller. Howard.
Right now, we don't really have any. Zach Steffen has at times looked brilliant, and is now off to Europe. But at other times, he's terrible and does stupid sh1t; and he stunk like a rotten fish against Ecuador.
Ethan Horvath is also in Europe, but hurt.
Everyone else is either a MLS retread, or elderly.
Excellent goalkeeping has long kept the US in many matches they had no business being in otherwise. But for now, that's gone.
- Quote
Comment
-
Unregistered
Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThe DA program takes out the all important winning mentality. It strips out the feisty tournaments and trophies that teach kids resiliency and how to win. It takes away all the fun. The leadership and coaching leave a lot to be desired.
The competition seems to be against each other for playing time and they don’t seem to have any team unity.
- Quote
Comment
-
Unregistered
Originally posted by Unregistered View PostBDA is too big and yet too small all at the same time. It's too big in that it lets in too many players who aren't top talent but can pay. That doesn't make our top players better, it just gives them practice cones. It's too small in that USSF only looks there and it doesn't nearly capture all the nation's better players. Too much talent is missed. Honestly going back to ODP would be better
- Quote
Comment
-
Unregistered
Originally posted by Unregistered View PostOr maybe closed, youth national leagues do more harm then good in a country the size of the United States.
For all its weaknesses - and there were many - old system had a basic respect for geography, which also meant local variability on things like calendars to reflect local seasonality.
- Quote
Comment
-
Unregistered
Originally posted by Unregistered View PostWithout commenting on the broader "what's wrong with the USMNT?" discussion.
For a very long time, the US has been blessed by a string of world-class, or near world-class, keepers. Meola. Friedel. Keller. Howard.
Right now, we don't really have any. Zach Steffen has at times looked brilliant, and is now off to Europe. But at other times, he's terrible and does stupid sh1t; and he stunk like a rotten fish against Ecuador.
Ethan Horvath is also in Europe, but hurt.
Everyone else is either a MLS retread, or elderly.
Excellent goalkeeping has long kept the US in many matches they had no business being in otherwise. But for now, that's gone.
- Quote
Comment
-
Unregistered
Originally posted by Unregistered View PostZach Steffen didn't play against Ecuador. That was the U20 team. But thanks for playing.
But the keeper against Ecuador wasn't terribly sharp, either. In general, if a keeper finds himself unable to see the player with the ball because there's a defender in the way, he (the goalie) needs to move, because a) he needs to know when the shot is coming, and b) if the defender screens the keeper, that means the two players are both effectively guarding the same section of net. The first goal was a bullet, but if the goalie were a few feet to the left where he should have been standing, he probably could have saved it.
(Few things annoy me more than TV commentators letting errant goalkeepers off the hook with "the goalie had no chance at that one", when it's obvious to anyone that the goalie was not positioned correctly, and with smarter positioning he could have covered all the shooter's angles).
- Quote
Comment
-
Unregistered
- Quote
Comment
-
Unregistered
The USWNT coach might make $30,000 per month but money can’t buy you class.
Watching that disgusting behavior today was disturbing. Cackling and acting Ike drunken hyenas laughing & dancing after running up 10//11/12/13 goals was embarrassing. What a bunch of classless Aholes. I hope they lose after seeing their behavior.
Score 30 goals but do with class.
- Quote
Comment
-
Unregistered
Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThe USWNT coach might make $30,000 per month but money can’t buy you class.
Watching that disgusting behavior today was disturbing. Cackling and acting Ike drunken hyenas laughing & dancing after running up 10//11/12/13 goals was embarrassing. What a bunch of classless Aholes. I hope they lose after seeing their behavior.
Score 30 goals but do with class.
I don’t disagree
- Quote
Comment
-
Unregistered
Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThe USWNT coach might make $30,000 per month but money can’t buy you class.
Watching that disgusting behavior today was disturbing. Cackling and acting Ike drunken hyenas laughing & dancing after running up 10//11/12/13 goals was embarrassing. What a bunch of classless Aholes. I hope they lose after seeing their behavior.
Score 30 goals but do with class.
Sad to hear so many Americans rooting against the USWNT.
- Quote
Comment
Comment