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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If that’s all you saw, you don’t understand the game. [/quote]

Care to respond to my actual statement without a pompous redefinition?  Do you agree that Uruguay is an athletic and running team or not?  [/quote]

Which team doesn't have athletic players?[/quote]

USMNT [/quote]

I agree with this completely.  If you think Tyler, Weston and Musah are athletic midfielders, you don't know what athletic means.  The centerbacks are even worse (though with Ream, that is a function of age).  Uruguay has multiple players head and shoulders above anybody on the US team; they are also more athletic.  I don't know what "running" team means at all.[/quote]

Name some of history's top rated Midfielders
Think Spain, Holland, Germany, Brazil, Croatia, Argentina....
How many of them were/are more 'athletic' than the USA Midfielders[/quote]

People like modric are more athletic.   The us Mids are not athletic.  Have had weight issues.  Worse many have had discipline/professionalism issues.  Marsh is right.  
Berhalter is playing same guys in same formations and getting same results over and over.

USMNT gets outworked by other teams.   [/quote]

LOL .... Little Luca Modric is more athletic than Tyler Adams?

This ignorance has no limits

That aside, athleticism is/has never been listed as top requirement for great Midfielders.
IQ, Vision, Decision Making, Technical Skills all come before [/quote]

Yes Luca Modric is more athletic than all three US starters, at least when he was 30-35.  And little Leo Messi was one of the best athletes in his prime with respect to both speed and balance.  Height is not athleticism.  Those other qualities are essential and more important, and unfortunately we are lacking there as well, at least relative to top flight national sides.[/quote]

Where are the US Midfielders playing their club ball?

If we are to listen to the DCUM expertise on how low level they all are, how are they fooling coaches, GM's and owners of these division 1 clubs in Europe?[/quote]

Adams played 3 games for Bournemouth last season, yes hurt, but that's not playing.
Musah and Pulisic play well for AC Milan, but has to be said they did not succeed in Premier League
Weah same Juventus, not a success or desired elsewhere
McKennie same italian, was a failure at Leeds
Reyna plays where exactly???   20 league games over last 2 years at Dortmund and Nottingham = 0 goals or add 4 extra nonleague games still = 0 goals

these 6 are the core of Berhalter's world, the players are calling to support GB now because if GB goes likely their untouchable roles do as well

Dest when healthy is a player but is a wingback[/quote]

So AC Milan and Juventus are small clubs in Europe who are desperate and have no choice but to scrape the bottom of the barrel for our rec league US boys?[/quote]

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