U23 Olympic Tryout Roster

The US is going to destroy El Salvador. Yep, there, I said it.

 

OK, that made me laugh.

 

I'm breaking out the big guns for this one. I have an old USA Beasley jersey on, my sons have a Shea USA jersey and a Dont Tread on Me T shirt. No foreign beer allowed, just American. COME ON YOU RED WHITE AND BLUE!!


Hey if they lose at least I know Porter will be in Akron for a while.

 

Wow Caleb Porter and the US are just lost. Horrible horrible no excuse for this. I have seen so little in this group stage to give me any sort of idea this team can do anything. For a third game in a row I almost find myself rooting for the other team.

 

Corona!!!

 

Disgusting

 

Im so effin' disgusted

 

Something is rotten in Denmark.

I said this after Cuba and Canada, and i say it now that was NOT a team coached by Caleb Porter. Porter's teams play through the midfield this team never did that. They played it back to the defense, even when there were better options, so they could kick up a long ball or play it to the wingers. I swear Klinsmann had his hands in this. Claudio, let's dribble out of our defensive end and blow our 2006 world cup, Reyna was there right next to Porter so god knows what his involvement was. Porter did not look himself; no eye contact in interveiws. He made no discernable adjustments. The team looked just as confused as the senior team has since Klinsmann took over. Prepare yourselves for a World Cup in 2014 without the US unless der Kaiser gets the axe. This was just awful. Porter knows how to manage difficult tournaments with games in close succession and he did not do it here. I have to wonder why.

 

You've got to be kidding me. This is the proverbial cherry on top of a #$@% sundae after watching the ManUre match.

I don't give a crap what Lalas had to say on sportscenter, This is a complete and total disaster, period.

 

That sucked.

 

I didn't watch any of the games, but how does a team with this much quality not make it out of the group stages? Unless Porter had no clue what he was doing or Klinsmann wanted him to play a certain style or a combination of both, there is no other explanation.

 

Also the ref started out in control of the game but he lost it in the last 30 min. Our guys were simply getting mauled and the ref did nothing. I thought it was stupid on El Sal's part but they got themselves through the stage.

Heather, we didnt play through the midfield against Cuba either. Mix and Corona could've handled themselves against Cuba but we never did it. We continued to play a 4-3-3 against teams that were sitting back on us so we were always outnumbered in the midfield. It was not the players fault they gave everything they had. I agree that Mix was awful last night, probably because he was exhausted from the three games, and should have been subbed off after he made numerous mistakes. Porter should have used his second sub when we went up 3-2. This disaster goes completely down to coaching. I would blame it all on Porter, but I have seen that guy coach 50 or so games and what I saw in this tournament didnt look familiar, didnt look like him. So I dont know what the hell happened, but something is seriously wrong. Most of these guys only get one shot at the olympics and they shouldnt be hindered from achieving that because US soccer and der baker rigidly says we have to play one way.

 

I felt that another potential error was the roster selection itself.

You only had six defenders on the roster with only two center backs, one of which is more a defensive midfielder (Perry Kitchen). The back line as a whole was pretty bad in all three games. Maybe this cycle of kids is not that great in the back, but the roster didn't help Porter.