USMNT vs Colombia and Ireland

Link? I try to stay as far away from Facebook as possible.

 

Schlock.

 

Klinsmann says US failed 'to digest' World Cup

"They have to learn emotionally how to digest a World Cup, and a lot of our players really had big problems digesting those extreme emotions," the U.S. coach said after Tuesday night's 4-1 exhibition loss to Ireland. "They dropped 20, 30 even 40 percent in performances in their club environment. Many of the Europeans lost their starting spot. Many other players in MLS or wherever went down 30, 40 percent in their performances and this is because they didn't know how to deal with all these emotions and all that recognition and all the compliments in the world that came after the World Cup."

"In a certain way it's human," Klinsmann acknowledged. "I mean, it's understandable."

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Hey.. ummm... jk...Maybe this?

Jordan Morris, a Stanford sophomore, entered in the 76th for his U.S. debut and became the 50th player to appear for the Americans this year. ​

 

The World Cup hangover is such bull****. I can't stand how Klinsmann continually puts down American soccer and its players. He's supposed to be bringing the program up to a world class level but comments like this are counterproductive.

 

I agree 100%. His arrogance knows no bounds. It's only a matter of time before resentment begins to grow among the players.

 

Aww.. hell, they're all arrogant. And i dont care about bringing in a junior either. It's the claim that there's some kinda depression that gets me.

And if you keep mixing and matching, running in new faces, you're gonna get bad performances. Which brings us to 'club performance'. Yeah.. a team learns to play with who they got. And maybe there's a different style {certainly LEVEL} of play depending on who ya got. Even if it's only practice.
And maybe when someone comes BACK after several weeks off it doesnt quite click.

BUT.. Jk's who we got. We did pretty good with him, overall. And I'm not gonna say Sigi {for example} would be better.

 

JK has been equally hard on the Euro-based guys. For as bad as the defense (Cameron & Besler had an awful night together) was, we did hit the post and crossbar in the first half, and Shay Given made a couple fantastic saves in the second (especially the toe save on Wood) otherwise that easily could have been a 4-3, 4-4 match.

2 cycles is a really long time, and it hasn't been too successful in the past, Arena had a disastrous 2006 WC, and Bradley got the axe shortly into his second stint. I honestly think what happens in 2016 at the Copa will determine if JK sees it through.

 

Further supporting my argument. How do Hamid, Garza, Rubin, Morales, Wood, Morris... and (arguably Altidore, Chandler, and Diskerud) have hangovers from an event that they didn't participate in?

 

If they're still hungover, I am impressed with their drinking skills. How much Cachaca did they imbibe?