usmnt

great angle. keeper's fault, but still a good looking shot

yeah, he held it up nice but the keeper should have stopped it

gbx does the online stream have commentary? I don't mind watching en espanol but HD on the ol' monitor would be nice.

yup

bradley is a boss tonight. altidore with a goal. who knew?

teenage bradley used to train with nowak, armas, kubik, and stoichkov when his dad was coach of the fire, so of course he's going to be a boss

great save

jugador mas valioso de state farm: jozy altidore

timmy trending WORLDWIDE

i don't understand why timmy chandler is not in the roster. robby rogers? are you kidding me...

SoccerInsider Steven Goff
Chandler? Bradley: "First real season playing at this level, it didn't make sense for him at this time, few minor injuries of late"

― harlan, Monday, May 23, 2011 3:56 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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“@dan_bu: Nürnberg want Chandler to take a break, because he wouldn´t have any vacation, if he plays the Gold Cup.”

― harlan, Monday, May 23, 2011 3:57 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

what shit.

ream isn't intl caliber. bet you jermaine jones doesn't play w/us again. bocanegra's done @ this level.

fire bob? never thought i'd become one of those guys.

I agree Jones was shitty, not so sure about Ream tho. Boca should be a CB if anything and not out wide. Wondo's miss was sad but they shouldn't have been in that position against a team like Panama.

This team really needs a Holden.

Aston Villa won´t sign Michael Bradley permanently. McLeish cancelled the deal today, although clubs agreed on terms before, acc. to "Bild".

aw fuck AV

still think he could be a good prem midfielder, and imagine what a midfield of him, jones, and a back-in-form holden would be like for the usa

hope he lands somewhere good, and would like to see the us play a 4-3-3 with that midfield and dempsey and donavan pushed up

http://aol.sportingnews.com/soccer/story/2011-06-22/american-midfielder-beasley-signs-with-mexican-club

whenever i see this thread title i think its about the ninja turtles

excited for the final. i don't have any confidence in sasha starting vs mexico. if i were bradley, i would play a 4-6-0 with edu instead for the first 75 mins to combat giovanni & chicharito then pray dempsey could save us again. i've been impressed with bedoya so far, i wonder if he can play behind agudelo or dempsey?

this is the most otm thing I've read since the final

http://aol.sportingnews.com/soccer/story/2011-07-01/firing-bradley-wouldnt-solve-us-soccers-real-problem

friendlies against Costa Rica and Belgium announced today btw

Jozy to AZ Alkmaar huh, I always figured he wasn't ready for a club like Villareal.

Bradley out

http://www.ussoccer.com/News/Mens-National-Team/2011/07/Bradleys-Tenure-Ends.aspx

http://bestanimations.com/Holidays/Fireworks/Fireworks-01-june.gifoh shi i hadn't seen this. breaking news on ilx dan m!http://bestanimations.com/Holidays/Fireworks/Fireworks-01-june.gif

feel like thread needs
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i5/herrlicher____alptraum/Natalie%20Dee/maracas.jpg

"further announcement friday" could they have someone lined up already? seems unlikely

didn't see that coming

Be nice if he came back to the Fire :D

but yeah now is the time to speculate on who the replacement will be

Klinsmann is the easy pick of course

only other name I see kicked around: Jason Kreis

lol comment on the Goff blog article about Bradley: "Fire whomever they hire!"

ok just read Marcelo Lippi rumor think I'm gonna shoot myself

Ives lists these dudes

Juergen Klinsmann
Guus Hiddink
Marcelo Lippi
Carlo Ancelotti
Rafa Benitez
Bruce Arena
Sigi Schmid
Jason Kreis
Claudio Reyna

Juergen Klinsmann - seems like he'll get the job
Guus Hiddink - yeah right
Marcelo Lippi - dunno
Carlo Ancelotti - more often than i should admit i think back to an interview where he said he was learning english. he had this shy smile about it, made him a real person. i like him and wish him well, can't imagine he'd end up here.
Rafa Benitez - only for the dmac lols
Bruce Arena - fucking hate this guy
Sigi Schmid - sumo coach, says he hasn't been contacted
Jason Kreis - 2015? or now. good guy at some point for us imo
Claudio Reyna - just got started Teaching The Youth. stick w/that for a bit

otm

http://www.ussoccer.com/News/Mens-National-Team/2011/07/Klinsmann-Named-Head-Coach-of-US-MNT.aspx

starting the "Fire Klinsmann" bandwagon right now b/c it's inevitable -- who's with me?

What was his plan for getting 'the inner-city youths' into the game, again? I've forgotten.

Hasn't he been an advisor to an MLS team?

yah TFC lolz

this is good news, no?

i guess? not sure what his record as a coach of germany and bayern could really say about his potential with the us. but i hope they give him control and time to try his system, and i hope he's committed to the project.

Woah, well done you lot. Klinsmann gets the credit here for the renaissance of German football (not sure how accurate that is, but still) and it seems like he got across-the-board free rein for that project. If there's scope for something similar in the US, it could be spectacular.

now there's only the small problem of quality players

I'm just interested to see which high-potential young players he utilizes and in what formation. Dudes like Adu, Diskerud, Agudelo, Ream and Chandler. I hope to never see Bornstein or Kljestan again, doubt it'll actually happen.

One thing's for sure, if he doesn't get over the generational bump that currently exists we're gonna get fucked by Mexico for years to come.

seems to me the problem w us youth soccer is as much a scouting ish as it is a talent problem. we're a huge country and I would wager that as many or more kids here grow up playing soccer as, say, in England (before anyone spits anything on any keyboards, recall that we have six times as many ppl...it's not outlandish to think that for every six English ten year olds playing there's one American).

the diff is that no one is paying close attention to young American players. moreover, they don't know how.

just occurred to me that the best/fastest way to pull up young players isn't by trying to pimp the MLS or promise riches in Europe---it's university involvement. if the college game improves/gets a rep as an incubator for talent (like every single other major sport except for baseball...which has a system remarkably like European systems), then maybe we'll see some changes.

it actually makes sense, economically---soccer teams are cheaper to train and equip than football teams, and good uni scouting has to be cheaper than trying to create from scratch a youth system like you'd find at a major euro club. those things didn't happen over night.

isn't there an age problem w/ that tho?

yah i'm not sure how the college system can accomodate the sort of exceptional players you are hoping for

even jozy altidore, who was a promising but hardly prodigious sort, left for villareal at about 19

no different from the age problem in, like, bball or hockey or w/e

competition for ~scholarships~ (that is, a college education) is what drives a lot of youth development. most kids know that they'll never be pros, but they could get into a school they might not otherwise be able to afford.

aren't there already college soccer scholarships?

not sure college soccer makes enough money for athletic departments to justify a ton of scouting