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Anonymous wrote:^^ US soccer. Very few Clubs in the country teach any better.

Idiots leading the youth players.

That's not what I've seen at youth clubs. There are lots of knowledgable coaches out there. It's not a blanket of incompetence.

More general anti-US rhetoric on this site. Not surprising.

Yes, they know how to get money from gullible parents. As for developing world class players not so much.

One thing I know for certain. Until people stop tearing down everything there is, we cannot hope to see the path forward.

Yes, let keep the closed system in professional soccer, SUM kickbacks, Goldman Sach's types running our soccer federation, expensive pay-to-play system for youth soccer, coaches that failed to qualify for the world cup after failing to beat T&T's second team. We obviously have nothing to learn from other countries that won the world cups, produced countless world class players, have youth development system that is free for top level players. There's nothing to tear down here. We have a clear path forward, if we keep things the same.

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.”
– Benjamin Franklin

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Anonymous wrote:^^ US soccer. Very few Clubs in the country teach any better.

Idiots leading the youth players.

That's not what I've seen at youth clubs. There are lots of knowledgable coaches out there. It's not a blanket of incompetence.

More general anti-US rhetoric on this site. Not surprising.

Yes, they know how to get money from gullible parents. As for developing world class players not so much.

One thing I know for certain. Until people stop tearing down everything there is, we cannot hope to see the path forward.

Yes, let keep the closed system in professional soccer, SUM kickbacks, Goldman Sach's types running our soccer federation, expensive pay-to-play system for youth soccer, coaches that failed to qualify for the world cup after failing to beat T&T's second team. We obviously have nothing to learn from other countries that won the world cups, produced countless world class players, have youth development system that is free for top level players. There's nothing to tear down here. We have a clear path forward, if we keep things the same.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ US soccer. Very few Clubs in the country teach any better.

Idiots leading the youth players.

That's not what I've seen at youth clubs. There are lots of knowledgable coaches out there. It's not a blanket of incompetence.

More general anti-US rhetoric on this site. Not surprising.

Yes, they know how to get money from gullible parents. As for developing world class players not so much.

One thing I know for certain. Until people stop tearing down everything there is, we cannot hope to see the path forward.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ US soccer. Very few Clubs in the country teach any better.

Idiots leading the youth players.

That's not what I've seen at youth clubs. There are lots of knowledgable coaches out there. It's not a blanket of incompetence.

More general anti-US rhetoric on this site. Not surprising.

Yes, they know how to get money from gullible parents. As for developing world class players not so much.

Haha--you know it's funny, from what I've seen, it's the foreign entities who plant their flag here that do that the best. For clarity, I mean getting money from the gullible parents part.

Please just move to Europe already. We know your position, no matter how many threads you create and/or post in on this.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ US soccer. Very few Clubs in the country teach any better.

Idiots leading the youth players.

That's not what I've seen at youth clubs. There are lots of knowledgable coaches out there. It's not a blanket of incompetence.

More general anti-US rhetoric on this site. Not surprising.

Yes, they know how to get money from gullible parents. As for developing world class players not so much.

Anonymous wrote:^^ US soccer. Very few Clubs in the country teach any better.

Idiots leading the youth players.

That's not what I've seen at youth clubs. There are lots of knowledgable coaches out there. It's not a blanket of incompetence.

More general anti-US rhetoric on this site. Not surprising.

^^ US soccer. Very few Clubs in the country teach any better.

Idiots leading the youth players.

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Anonymous wrote:Parking the bus in a friendly game? Even Mourinho would not have done it.

Thank you. A friendly, where we’re trying to see the extent of our young players’ abilities, is not “a big game or occasion” to park the bus. I’d rather lose heavily and have the players learn something other than defend for their lives and send hopeful punts.

So? They used a strategy to get a result. They could have lost badly with the strategy and then you would have ranted about player selection and how we can't even defend when we try. Nothing about this result says anything definitive about direction or coach selection.

We already know how you feel about the direction, no need to hear it daily.

I think it is healthy that fans like him/her express their frustrations with the USSF and coaching incompetence. And they have good reasons to do it. Franco Panizo asked Gyasi Zardes what Sarachan asked of him as a substitute: "Just bring energy. Bring energy. That was the main goal." He followed up by asking what was asked tactically: "You've got to stay high and just try to make something happen." So basically the tactical instruction amounted to run around with lots of energy, stay up high, and hope something good would happen.

When Weston McKinney was asked the same question he said that he was told to "just express yourself" and to "get the ball, turn and run forward" and not to play "diagonal ball back to find space" but to "play diagonal ball forward" and "if it does not work out, to try again next time until it does." This is our current coaching at the national team level!!! No wonder we failed to qualify for the World Cup.

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Anonymous wrote:Parking the bus in a friendly game? Even Mourinho would not have done it.

Thank you. A friendly, where we’re trying to see the extent of our young players’ abilities, is not “a big game or occasion” to park the bus. I’d rather lose heavily and have the players learn something other than defend for their lives and send hopeful punts.

So? They used a strategy to get a result. They could have lost badly with the strategy and then you would have ranted about player selection and how we can't even defend when we try. Nothing about this result says anything definitive about direction or coach selection.

We already know how you feel about the direction, no need to hear it daily.

Anonymous wrote:Parking the bus in a friendly game? Even Mourinho would not have done it.

Thank you. A friendly, where we’re trying to see the extent of our young players’ abilities, is not “a big game or occasion” to park the bus. I’d rather lose heavily and have the players learn something other than defend for their lives and send hopeful punts.

Parking the bus in a friendly game? Even Mourinho would not have done it.

Yes, it can help you win one-off games, maybe seasons. It’s not a long-term strategy. It relies on speculation, your opponents having more of the ball than you, most likely having more occasions than you, and you somehow winning by very slim margins. It’s not a philosophy that can turn around the fortunes of a club for more than just the 1 season until they got you figured out or your luck runs out. It’s why Mou doesn’t last at any club longer than the 4th year, and he doesn’t leave an imprint on the team when he leaves, because all they focused on was attaining results.

Anonymous wrote:Mourinho’s on the verge of getting fired and his captain is flirting with leaving the club.

Maybe so, but that doesn't reflect upon the history of the strategy. It has worked on many occasions. Big games.

Mourinho’s on the verge of getting fired and his captain is flirting with leaving the club.

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Anonymous wrote:If we lose to the young Mexican team this week, would we see a new coaching appointment? It has been almost a year since the crashed out of the WC qualifying and it seems that nothing has changed.

Guess we'll see. The players have definitely changed.

I guess you could also argue that the formation has changed, given that we played 5 defenders and 3 holding mids against France. As for the players' change, it is not meaningful as there is not much improvement in terms of quality of players. The team is younger and slightly more technical, but the style of play is the same.

Coaching and players, among other factors, dictate the formation, not the converse. Culture and coaching dictate style and strategy. Let's wait and see what happens. Formation can change on a game to game basis, so I dont see how pointing that out is relevant.

When you line up with 5 defenders and 3 defensive midfielders in a friendly, it says a lot about your style of play and that you are playing for result (i.e., not to be embarrassed in a friendly game). It shows where the coaching priorities are.

Parking the bus is a strategy. You may not like it, but it works. Ask Jose Mourinho. We can't all be 2010 Spain, can we?