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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The team needs to "gel" is a classic example of recreational mentality.  The [b]teams do not magically gel with the passage of time.  Tactical instructions and carefully choreographed team movement are essential[/b].  All top coaches in all styles of play do it.      [/quote]

You're kidding, right?
Tactical instruction is incredibly important, but it doesn't magically lead to carefully choreographed team movement. That takes practice and communication among the players. 
Sure, pros can gel quicker than rec players, but [b]are you really arguing that a back line that is playing together for the first time should be just as good as a back line that plays together all the time?[/b]
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It seems to me that neither of you are really arguing what the other is trying to claim you are arguing.

Of course, team chemistry is important, and it takes time to build that, or "gel".   All national team coaches face that challenge to some extent, and that challenge is going to be greater during times like the present, well before the next qualifying cycle starts, when the national team really should rotating a lot of different players in and out to give new players opportunities and try to figure out who will fit in best with the group and with the coach's system of play.

But, I think it is also pretty darned clear that the USMNT team players have not received any real tactical instruction for quite some time now.  You can see it in how they play, but they also pretty much come right out and say it during interviews.  "Go out and make something happen" is pretty much the extent of it.

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