You don’t get to see his gifts until the US is playing a world class team imo.

Who puts Adu with Ching? That is retarded. You have to put a player in a place to succeed. I was hoping they were going to sub ching for the other striker who came on.

All that being said Adu did not play well. He was able to work in tight positions but he didn’t seem up for the game.

The biggest part missing from Adu’s game is his size, not his height, but his size. He needs to become bigger and stronger througout.

I hope he is able to play for Benefica regularly or the Adu will not appear until 2012 or 2013 for the US. He is a great player, he just needs the right circumstances around him with a coach that trusts him.

GLTTMNT

In regards to the game…Honduras was awful…all they did the entire game was hit long balls and hope their forwards could either hold it long enough to draw a foul or sprint past our back line…it was a boring game to watch when Honduras had the ball. The US looked as good as their line-up allowed in the first 60 minutes. When you play Beckerman and Pause together you’re not going to get much of any creativity coming out of the middle. Brian Ching and Freddy Adu up top was just plain ugly. Quaranta was awful until they brought in Davies and Feilhaber and then he came out of no where and waw great. Parkhurst and Marshall did not mix well at all and Parkhurst just overall isn’t a very good player. When looking at the starting line-up you could have guessed how the game would have gone b/c the line-up was just plain stupid. Davies and Feilhaber were obvious substitutions and should have started the game for sure. Overall it was another example of how Bob Bradley tries to get cute and it ends up making the team look stupid because the mix of players is not right…the only reason we didn’t get blown out of the water in the first 45 minutes is because as I said earlier…Honduras was awful.

So with that point, I will say Gooch is the first US player to break into the ranks of a true powerhouse team. Will he play is the question? I hope so. That is my only point.

GLTTMNT

yes i have lived abroad. i live abroad right now in poland, another country with a lot of good keepers. all i am saying is that what eric and i were talking about has nothing to do with transfers or fanfare or anything like that which is what your point was. we were just talking about americans who have played for a big club, not about which positions are important on the pitch. i think you’re overanalyzing things a tad too much.