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Earnie Stewart is USS GM. Whatever that means. Inevitable choice. Connected and respected internationally. It's a job upgrade for him, while it would have been a clear step down for Bocanegra and Reyna. Looking forward to his choice at coach.
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The Ringer did a behind the scenes about us failing to qualify for Russia. https://www.theringer.com/2018/6/5/17428184/2018-world-cup-us-soccer-inside-story-jurgen-klinsmann-sunil-gulati-bruce-arena Some interesting stuff from obviously off the record players. I will always love Clint Dempsey.
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You mean it was bad that Ted Beneke ran our backline ragged? What a flawless joke for such a small audience.
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It's stupid to draw many conclusions from these Sarachan-lead friendlies, but that Ireland game sucked. Trapp has never done anything for me as an international, Hamid was trash and so was CCV.
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I don't think you were off at all. He was borderline reckless more than a couple of times and could've been exploited by a better team. I just think it's inexperience, exuberance, and positioning. All things he can improve. People rave about his personality and leadership intangibles. I also really enjoy that he, Weah, and some of the other young guys seem like they have fun personalities.
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Yeah. The MLS guys are better. Steffen, Gonzalez. They're both a little dinged and in the middle of their seasons as starters. I'm so excited about him. He's so good. I think once he gets a couple years of savvy and experience under his belt he could be special. At this rate, he'll have 4 years starting for one of the biggest clubs in Germany and regular champions league appearances under his belt by the time he's Kellyn Acosta's age. People are really excited about Sargent and have been for a while, and he could end up being really, really good, but I'm with you. Weah is electric. His club situation is going to be tough to navigate but hopefully his name and talent get him a real shot to start wherever he ends up going out on loan.
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Obviously it's misleading since only one of these guys has actually broken through, but it's very cool to have a roster come out with an average age below 23 from clubs like Dortmund, Chelsea, Man City, Man U, Benfica, PSG, etc. That's never happened at this volume for the US.
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Ty Adams is upgrading Red Bulls. https://www.starsandstripesfc.com/2018/5/20/17373288/rb-leipzig-transfer-rumors-news-tyler-adams-usmnt I bet he'll stick with Leipzig. There's no reason he wouldn't get playing time with Europa League and the DFB Pokal. He could break into that lineup.
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This dude is going to play for Mexico but he good. I guess until he actually does we can hold out hope. [tweet] [/tweet]
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Nah. Other than keeper and striker, that's as in-form and talented a team as we usually go with.
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Yes, I would say no. National team managers can't be slaves to style.
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Tyler Adams is ACTIVE. That dang kid can run. Really exciting player.
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The way everyone's media habits are changing make AM radio an already dead industry. WSCR pivoted to cater to the people who have already tapped out of exploring new ways to consume their media. They'll run on the fumes of their local audience that just wants to hear a voice talking about the only teams they care about without infringing on their personal grievance politics until those people die out and it'll be gone. A guy like Jason Goff who is still relatively young and has to survive in the media industry beyond the next 5-10 years, unlike a fossil like Dan McNeil, is better off in the long run regrouping and finding a more forward-positioned niche. Aggrieved conservatives love to point out ESPN's declining ratings and blame Jemele Hill or Dan Le Batard talking about social issues within sports or how NFL ratings are declining because of player activism, and that might play a very small role, but really, people are just finding different things to care about and different ways to consume it.
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I like how how they all only compare Jason Goff to Jonathan Hood and Laurence Holmes like old white guys talking QB's or white NBA players. Really feeling my age today. If this were 5-10 years ago, I would've spent hours irony trolling that site.
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in case you have trouble finding it because the address moved, its http://www.chicagofanatics.com Some very weird dudes in that forum. Extremely bizarre. Really great.
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3 assists in 120 minutes for Pulisic. He looked great this weekend. Form no longer seems to be a problem.
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Same. [tweet] [/tweet]
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Tim Weah got more pt with PSG this weekend than Pulisic with Dortmund. This is a snide way of pointing out that Weah seems to be making real progress (almost scored) and Pulisic seems to be out of favor with the new manager. His form hasn't been terrible but it hasn't been great either and with German stars like Reus, Schurrle, & Gotze getting healthy, he's been benched.
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American soccer woes continue. McKennie is out 6 weeks with a partial MCL rupture and Herculez Gomez exposed the Gonazlez debacle with receipts on his podcast. It's disheartening. Highlights include Thomas Rongen lying about visiting Jona's family, Richie Williams (a failure of a coach who keeps falling up) tell his family that he, at age 14, had 10 minutes to choose between academy offers in Mexico and the Bradenton Academy before he'd pull the offer, and the Mexican Federation basically acting super classy and competent in their recruitment and relationship with the family. I walked away from that podcast knowing that Gonzalez made the absolute correct choice for himself. This was a completely unforced error. The US frankly should've lost him years ago and it was only his loyalty to his birth country that kept him around long enough to give us a shot to keep him. I really, really hope Kyle Martino wins the USSF presidency and can fix some of these obvious things. Thomas Rongen and Richie Williams should have been canned 10 years ago or more. Instead, they were given jobs with no accountability that are essential to the future of the national team. Missing the world cup is going to be beneficial in the long run. It's unfortunate that this is what it took.
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[tweet] [/tweet] LMAOOOOOOOOOO
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Win some, lose some. https://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2017/02/09/timothy-tillman-bayern-munich-barcelona-usa-germany-prospect This guy is filing a one-time switch.
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Also worth mentioning that Tab Ramos is probably going to be the next MNT head coach and he left Gonalez off his U-20 world cup roster in favor of Tyler Adams and a few others he rated higher
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could we have kept him if we called him to europe for the friendlies, or is this a result of the US not making the World Cup? Sounded like we could have kept him. I have to think he switched because he just prefers Mexico. If it's true that we could have kept him if we had called him up for a beyond meaningless friendly against a B team in Portugal, then he would be a petulant baby, and I doubt that's the case. I suspect that like a lot of mexican-american dual nationals, he was 100% committed to the US until a Mexico international career call up looked like a safe bet and then instantly he wasn't. They didn't even know he existed until he was in our YNT. He's a nice prospect but at the deepest, youngest position we have, so it's not a Rossi/Subotic tragedy. That said, I want more Mexican-American representation on the national team and he looked pretty can't-miss. The thing that bothers me the most is what role, if any, Trump played in this guy's decision of which country he wants to represent. I think playing for El Tri in a World Cup is the big draw, but I'm sure the US missing the WC and Trump being elected hurt us to varying degrees. Can't discount his agent in this equation either. He plays in Liga MX. Mexican internationals get premium salaries in Liga MX.
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Jonathan Gonzalez is filing a switch to play for Mexico. Essentially an 18 year old, Mexican-American Ozzie Alonso. One of the most promising prospects in the pool.
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Carlos Bocanegra is really good at this executive thing.