12-10-2022, 11:06 AM
(12-05-2022, 04:38 AM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: I see what you're saying but you can score a lot with your midfielders. Look at France in 1998. And having a striker isn't going to matter if 75% of the crosses sent in are blocked by the first defender. That was probably my biggest negative taken away from this World Cup other than Berhalter's roster decisions and mostly ineffective substitutions. American coaches are tactically behind most European and South American coaches. I'm a HUGE supporter of MLS and love how far they've come, but our coaching is still in it's infancy.
I know this has nothing to do with what you are saying, but, this conversation/comparison has gone on for years on the soccer boards and it's the same situation with our announcers. There hasn't been much of a chance for American ex-players to coach in intense, high level matches or call matches on TV. There's no legendary American coach to compare them to and there's no great American announcer for the young upstarts to emulate. It's still in the early stages of building the infrastructure for each craft, coaching and announcing.
That's why we still hire so many British announcers for the World Cup. Neither the coaching trees or the announcing profession has had a chance to evolve up to a world level at this point. John Strong was a Portland Timbers fan that got involved with the Timbers TV crew and worked his way up to lead announcer because this country has very few quality announcers. Shortly after, he's was hired by Fox to be the voice of American soccer ever since. He's the first upstart to come out of MLS that's not part of the old guard of announcers(JP Dellacamera, Glenn Davis, etc).
Jesse Marsch is interesting as possible Manager, but he's supposedly not interested in the job, and I hope that's not just an opening negotiation statement. I've heard Roberto Martinez mentioned and I like that idea. A lot. He's done well with merely OK clubs in the English Premiership long before he coached Belgium.
Please please PLEASE take Marsch, he plays the same system your current manager does but the guy in charge at the moment gets better results.
I really don’t think there should be a big inquest in to your tournament you had a good run but until you find a proper number 9 who can finish half chances I don’t think it matters who you have in charge.
Today will be a tough game for us but can see us winning in extra time.
