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Get a load of Jurgen Trump.

 

http://www.espnfc.us/team/united-states/660/blog/post/3001445/jurgen-klinsmanns-excuses-the-final-straw-for-us-soccer-chiefs

Klinsmann explained away the losses in public. In private, his excuses were even more bold; he told Gulati that he was convinced that the Gold Cup was fixed so Mexico would win, setting up the big-money playoff match against the U.S., a viewpoint that exasperated his boss.

ESPN & CONCACAF rigging tournaments for ratings! Sad!

 

Crooked Sunil fired him, yes, but this kind of horsefeathers drives me crazy:

It was around then that rumors began circulating that the USSF was prepared to jettison Klinsmann if the U.S. lost its last match of 2015, a year-ending qualifier on the road against Trinidad and Tobago. With Gulati in attendance in Port of Spain, the Americans managed a scoreless tie, and Klinsmann kept his job.

 

This kind of arbitrary, make-or-break referendum should not be the reason anyone in any industry keeps or loses their job. The manager in charge of any employee should be able to know whether or not they are employing the right person regardless of individual results. Failure to see and move on the big picture in a timely fashion is what sets programs/initiatives/companies/governments back for years and sometimes generations.

 

There's a point where if you're putting an arbitrary metric like "not losing to T&T" as the make or break point, you have to step back and realize that the fact you have a make or break point like that is proof enough that the situation has gone bad.

 

I also found the line about Flynn and Gulati not deciding to fire him until Sunday night interesting. Had he shut his mouth and not popped off about how dumb the fanbase is for criticizing him (the 4th time he's done that at least) he'd probably not have been fired at all which is unfathomable to me.

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I'm just glad we're going to get to see guys like Benny again, will know what to expect from game to game, and can be done with things like playing a fresh-off-injury JJ in Hex games, playing Ventura Alvarado against anyone, moving Fab anywhere and everywhere on the field, playing formations we've never played before in Hex games, and hearing how stupid we all are because we dared to criticize Jurgen.
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Is there any chance at all we see Landon play for USMNT again? How has he looked in his return?

He's looked solid but not national team level. There's still a chance though if he wants it bad enough.

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It looks very likely that MLS Cup is going to be in Seattle.

 

That is wild.

 

Was it 3-0 when you typed that?

Yeah. Before Vanney decided to stop doing a Jurgen impression, put a partner in the mf for MB and they stormed back.

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how in the world is that not a straight red

 

I don't know how many patty cake straight reds I saw this year because it came at the neck level, and that's a yellow?

 

 

That's a red all day long. I have no idea how the AR and red both saw the contact and came to the conclusion that it was only yellow.

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It's a shame Lodiero didn't come a year earlier; can you imagine a front 3 of Clint, Oba and Lodiero?

 

Next year might be scarier with Lodeiro, hopefully Clint, Morris, and probably a DP winger. Set Roldan and Alonso behind those 4 with the center backs they have and they'll win a lot of games.

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