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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree Ramos would be a good option.  If Berkhalter is the choice and doesn’t pan out, Ramos will be next man up. I can understand their reluctance to go to a foreign coach after the Klinsmann mess.  Maybe if that has worked out better they wouldn’t be so set on an American [/quote]

If Klinsmann "mess" disqualifies all foreign coaches, then Arena/Sarachan mess certainly disqualifies all American coaches, especially those with MLS background.  I finally understand why they have not been able to find and hire a well-qualified coach for over a year.    [/quote]

Who said "disqualified?"  The word was reluctance.  Better to hire the devil you know than one that you don't.  Klinsmann served the platter to Arena that lost us qualification in the last WC.  Not that Arena deserves praise, but he inherited that disaster.  Say what you want about Sarachan, but at least the player rotation is much improved and being experimented with.  The next person in line needs to solidify a core and mate it with strategy and tactics.[/quote]

Tata Martino and JCO have both coached in MLS. They fit the definition of "the devil you know," especially JCO, who has done his share of humiliating the USMNT in this down period, and also has been tested against top-level international competition, such as Germany and Brazil in the last World Cup. That neither man was even interviewed says a lot about US Soccer's phony "search."

BTW, Klinsmann wasn't a great fit for the USMNT, but the biggest "mess" he left was telling the truth about MLS and how it sucks at developing US players. That, more than anything else, was why he was fired. And the reason we have so many great young players now like Weston McKennie is because Klinsmann opened the doors of the Bundesliga to them.

Anyway, it looks like we'll get to see if whatever strategy and tactics Berhalter comes up with can hold its own against players whose quality is more like Gonzalo Higuain's than his older brother's.

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Klinsmann's last year with the US was a complete disaster.  The team should have progressively gotten better through his tenure, but peaked early in his tenure.  The performance over five years speaks volumes.[/quote]

That's because of washed-up players who were past their "sell-by" dates, like Michael Bradley, who's a decent center back until you realize he's supposed to be a midfielder. Arena kept going to the same dry well with the same results. Don't blame Klinsmann for missing the World Cup. It wasn't his fault.

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Right, because it isn’t the job of a USMNT coach to assess the players for their career and psychological factors and call up new players as needed to ensure that we stay on target.  Poor, poor Klinsmann, he was just a bystander to what was going on with our aging stars.   All of that stuff about his inability to settle on a direction and keep a team on target was garbage.  It was all the players fault....

It was absolutely a large part of his fault we didn’t make it....we finished very poorly in the immediately preceding Gold cup and his final matches which were part of WC qualifying and left a wreck of a team for the next coach.  If you think it isn’t a main responsibility of the head coach to take care of personnel matters and ensure players psychology is on the right track, and to make improvements in anticipation of personnel who are being problematic, you are lost.   It’s probably the most important responsibility.

He failed because he couldn’t take the pulse of the team and make the adjustments needed when it was headed downhill.  He let it keep going south for long enough to result in the train wreck that was 2016/2017.   [/quote]

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