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The talking stonehead
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Blue Springs, MO
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Choco Favre
Join Date: Jul 2012
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2 World Cup appearances in their history is absolute trash. Their performance in those world cups is even worse ![]() |
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#543 |
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Join Date: Jan 2022
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what a great hire. we're so lucky chelsea is run by absolute idiots and they let him go. if you only count the 2nd half of the prem season, poch actually had chelsea as the 3rd best team. of course they gave him no time to keep building though.
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Perpetual Mediocrity
Join Date: Jan 2006
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And yet, despite their much smaller talent pool and limited resources, they're still ranked ahead of the USA in ELO right now. What does that say about the American program? ![]() |
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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#546 |
The talking stonehead
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Blue Springs, MO
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They really do. He sounds like he actually thought he had a chance to get the job during the search and he’s still super bitter that he didn’t get a chance. I’m glad he was able to land on his feet somewhere after he fizzled out at Leeds, but he was never going to be the answer for the USMNT. Not during such a critical time for the future of the sport in this country. A lateral move from Berhalter to Marsch would have never solved anything. Like I said when you originally posted this nonsense- the USMNT needed to make a big splash and Jesse Marsch is nothing more than a skipping rock on a small puddle. Never dreamed it would work out this well, though. Poch was definitely the best available candidate and somehow the USMNT didn’t **** it up.
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In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2008
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And we still feel the impact of that shit show. We didn't have veterans because our talent development in the prior generation was atrocious. Our best guys were young and raw but that's really bad when your most experienced vets are so bad they aren't even being considered. I've heard this be called the Lost Generation And don't even get me started on pay to play which looms especially large in a sport that costs nothing to play and when we have to compete internationally with countries who don't do this |
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For The Glory Of The City
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Kansas City
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I was told once we get MLS trash out the US was really going to thrive but all they have done is is underperform meanwhile some of our best results in our history have been achieved with an MLS heavy core of players. Hey things change and systems evolve I want the best players regardless of league but you guys still blaming MLS for everything is so disingenuous. |
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#549 | |
Choco Favre
Join Date: Jul 2012
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It’s just no one wants to live there. We’ve gone over this, our history trounces yours. In fact, it’s not even close. We were in the round of 16 in the World Cup, how did you guys do? |
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#550 |
No Keys, No Problem
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Denver
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You're nuttier than a maple log from Tim Hortons. The sarcastic post was obviously referring to population size, not landmass. And event then the landmass is only 1.6 percent larger in area.
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In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2008
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Agreed that from there it's probably not nearly enough. And that there are also bigger problems biggest being our youth development programs. That has nothing to do with mls and I hope people don't think that this divorce by itself is a fix all |
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#552 |
I'm with the Banned
Join Date: Feb 2009
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Me coming here to talk Soccer. Seeing the discussions in the thread and realizing it was a mistake.
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Choco Favre
Join Date: Jul 2012
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