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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It must kill you that even with the recent crappy results, Arena's stats are still better than Klinsmann.

Nothing written above demonstrates that Arena left a bigger mess than Klinsmann.  We made the WC in 2006.   The team was in shambles when Klinsmann left.[/quote]

No, because I don't care. What I care about is using Klinsmann as a scapegoat to avoid the real problems: US Soccer and MLS. Stats are nothing if you can't win big games. And that will come with two things neither US Soccer nor MLS does well: Player development and coach development.

Our problems are structural and won't be solved by hiring someone like JCO or Tata. But US Soccer trying to rig the choice for Berhalter shows that they have learned absolutely nothing from the past four years. Not. A. Single. Thing. Just reinforcing mediocrity.

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Klinsmann would still be coaching if he did not say that our best players, especially young ones, should not settle for comfy mediocrity of MLS, but instead they should strive to play in Europe.   [/quote]
It is the truth.  He was 100% correct.  It’s where old FIFA players go to retire, when they are no longer in their prime.  We can’t hang with them in their prime.  MLS is at slow speed.[/quote]

Not disputing that the players should play in Europe (obvious to everyone with a brain, including US soccer), but we would have been better off if he had stayed. He lost control of the team completely and did not do a good job cultivating the infusion of new blood into the team.  That alone would have helped with the player issues alluded to above.

The fact is that there are some political aspects to his job and he should have just kept his big mouth shut on player movement to Europe.  That he couldn’t do that is another strike against him, but not the only one.  That was the least of the problems he left.  I don’t know why anyone would keep trying to defend the indefensible on this other than the pure dogma that foreign = better at any cost.

Really sounds just like a bunch of soccer moms wowed by the new Brit running a soccer clinic down the street.  Man, he must be a soccer genius with that accent....[/quote]

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