Can we please fire him now? Please?

The team should be made to sit down and watch Greece at Euro 2004 and Turkey at Euro 2008 repeatedly!!!!

As for coaches. Didier Deschanps.

I’d love to see this on Sunday. I know it has a 0% chance of happening but even something remotely similar to this would be nice.

********************Altidore********************
****Adu*******************************Donovan***
************Torres*************Feilhaber********
********************Bradley*********************
Bornstein*****Demerit*****Onyewu*********Spector
*********************Howard*********************

Oh and we should wear the charcoal colored kit, no white, please.

I am getting sick of the US showing up to these competitions and not scoring goals. And I’ve been sick of Donovan for several years. This team needs to get better quick or we’re out in the first round against next year!

*grumblegrumble*

Also the charcoal kits? Boring as all hell. The white/grey kits are the first classy kits i’ve seen the US team wear and the first kit i’ve ever actually thought looked world class. Everything else we’ve had looks either incredibly boring or incredibly boring and gaudy simultaneously, which is truly a feat. The only part of it that I dislike is the stupid symbol. Ours is f*cking terrible. It is offensive to the eyes and needs to be redone.

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I just think that we raise our expectations too high in these tournaments partially because of the bull American commentators always spew on ABC/ESPN. Let’s face it, time and time again our players and tactics show we have a lot to learn. We need a real coach and players who do not think the world of themselves. Being top of CONCACAF, getting a draw in an international friendly, and being really good in the MLS mean absolutely nothing. We can probably beat Egypt in our final game, and suddenly it’ll seem everything is all right until the next time we crash out at the group stages.

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P.S. Our players need to learn to have some discipline. I will be surprised if we do not get a red card against Egypt.

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We need a european coach. Bradley made the same mistake that Bruce Arena did. He plays WAY too many players and changes rotations from game to game, i swear every time you watch a game there are new faces in the first 11. USA MUST have the first eleven and then build on it. This team will barely make it to the World Cup, but why even go there if we are going to get blown out by everyone. This is not the same USA team that did wonders in Japan and SOuth Korea. Oh yeah, Dempsey is clueless, that kid, i do not know how he ended up in England but I am sure that there are better players in MLS then this guy. With this coach we stand 0 chance of wining a single point in South Africa.. Now it is the time to make a change. Egypt will blow us away the way we play…. I miss those good old days when we could compete against anyone. One would think that by now US soccer team would be ready to take it all but instead we are seing a decline in our performance. Unbelieavable!! Bradley!!!! Please resign.. And one last thing , someone please tell US soccer players that it is SOCCER they are playing not American FOOTBALL, no more red cards !!! God bles USA

Beasley is a bum… he is utterly disgusting to watch. usa plays for a tie. the coaching sucks the team suxks and very few players play with any heart. where is freddy adu?? cmon usa time to wake up and play for real.
Beasley should retire as soon as possible.

i love the faux nostalgia for the old days. it’s not like we got anywhere then either guys…think about progress for god’s sake

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Does anyone here think Piotr Nowak could be the answer. I am from Philadelphia, and am excited to hear that he is adopting Barcelona’s style of play. I think anything that is borrowed from Europe can only help the American game.

Emir, Clint Dempsey was one of the best players on a team that qualified for the Europa League in the EPL last year. I think DAinLA’s analysis of the situation was spot on. Under Roy Hodgson Dempsey has a very specific and very tactical role that he adheres to. He knows what he’s doing out there. He has a system supporting him and how he plays and he plays within it. On the USA team he has no system supporting him, and feeling that he is one of the best players on our team (which he should feel because he is) he tries to do too much, and because he doesn’t have the right coaching he ends up doing the wrong things.

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Marlon — I totally agree. I even wrote a post about it yesterday.

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10-20 yeras ago you could make the excuse that the rest of the world is better because they start playing at a high level very young. Not so much difference today. We start our kids as soon as they are able to walk for the most part.

Colin Cowherd had a good take on it yesterday. Our best athletes play football and basketball. We look like boys amongst men.

PS:

These world stage games are almost unwatchable due to those ignorant horns blowing!!!!!!

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The “our best athletes play football and basketball” excuse is tired. It’s true, but we could do better then we are doing and we aren’t.

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This team shows absolutely no heart out there. It was very painful to watch the game vs Brazil. I also believe Bradley should be fired on Monday! We had NO game plan, NO organization, and our top players ride the pine! Beasley,Klejkstan,Bornstein,and Bradley have no business being on the field at this level. My prediction- Egypt 2-0 over US on Sunday.

Jeff, I don’t know why your hating on Michael Bradley Jr. I think he is one of our better players in the Midfield. Give me Adu and Bradley in the midfield with Feilhaber, and Donovan and maybe Torres can come on, for Feilhaber. The problem is the old washed up MLS players that Bradley insist on playing. Imagine if we had Subotic to anchor our defense with spectre…one can only dream.

Michael Bradley is good but there is a problem. He is neither a pure defensive midfielder nor a pure attacking midfielder. He is right in the middle, someone who does reasonably well at both. The problem is in our formations we don’t employ that type of player. Our entire midfield is comprised of defensive midfielders, creative midfielders and wingers. The times we play two CDM, he is fine there, but he is not good enough to be the lone CDM in my opinion. Things may change for the better when Jermaine Jones arrives because if they combine at CDM, Bradley will have a bit more freedom to create the attack, or Jermaine Jones could be a lone CDM.

Maybe I’m just paranoid, but is there an anti-foreign club conspiracy? Where is McBride? Spector can only get in because of others’ injuries? Can Donovan pass to Spector when Spector is making a run up the right side? What’s up with that? Donovan blew at least two maybe more significant, dangerous runs by Spector and Spector seems to be the one player, besides Howard, who isn’t making mistakes and is showing us world-class soccer.

Who are these announcers saying Spector missed his mark on the first goal against Brazil and then saying Howard should have come out and gotten that ball? Spector had his guy offside on the direct kick until DeMerit decided to back-up and put the guy onside; and, I think, Howard did what defenders are supposed to do when an offensive player is offside and the ball comes his way…ignore the player, which he did, not knowing that DeMerit mistakenly retreated to put the player onside. I’m tired of so-called “experts” like Lalas and Harkes blowing a critical analysis. Back to school for those boys. Same for the soccer publications and newspaper reporters who missed it and blame the wrong guys. Bad analysis leads to bad design.

Is Bradley just marching to USSF’s orders?

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So, here is one way you can make a bit of difference. A friend of mine writes for a certain American football sports news webpage and wrote a rather scathing article on Bradley after the Brazil game. Then people began calling for Bradley to be fired. Apparently, Chicago received over 500 calls from irate fans. And someone started a Facebook page to have Bradley fired.

Here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27249621746&ref=mf

This has the attention of Chicago. They called my writer friend and accused him of starting the Facebook page (ridiculous) and instigating fans. They actually think this is just about one writer bringing the heat and is not a direct result of Bradley’s horrible coaching, which is a very bad sign.

So, please join the group and fire off an email or two to Chicago. We need to actually do something, rather than just bitching online.

Here’s the email contact page.

http://www.ussoccer.com/contact/index.jsp.html

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I joined the group and sent an email.

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Marlon – I agree about Dempsey. Totally adrift in Bradley’s system. His tricks at the end of the Brazil game were superfluous, but can we really begrudge the man a little fun? This team needs more players with his control and creativity, and it’s telling that Harkes’ reaction was to shake his head and lecture about “discipline”. Simply getting the basics right doesn’t make you a threat at the World Cup. Dempsey’s imagination should be encouraged, because we’ll rely on it to make a good showing next year. Also, maybe the powers that be could stop treating Adu like a washed-up veteran. Tough to get excited about this side.

Here are the top problems with the US team.

1, No individual attacking skills. (Wall passing,running into space,throughballs etc.. will not cut it when you play the best teams in the world. The attacking players on the US team need to be creative & take on defenders using ball skills which will then open up chances for team mates.

2. Have you ever notice our attacking players spend more time fallen on the ground.
(Dempsey, Beasley, Johnson, Altidore, etc.. fall over so easily. Don’t get me wrong i understand
the international game of putting your team in a good scoring chance. But this seems the norm
for us. The US soccer should be teaching our youngsters from small stay strong, don’t be pushed off balanced so easily. They should be teaching Atticking 2v1 , 1v1 skills .
Look at Teams that are not in the so called elite. Turkey, Egypt, Morroco. I’m sure they don’t
have any soccer development set up compared to the US. Yet the ATTACK @ ALL COST.

3. I think Bob Bradley has done a good job with the US team in these areas. They are more confident with the one touch passing. The Goalkeeping is fine, the defenders are good.
Landon, Badley, Clark, Torres have the skills to compete.

4. I don’t believe in this size thing. Having to play a big man with a small man etc…
Look what New Jersey born 5ft 7 Rossi did for italy. He rosted the US.
Size does not matter. Bring on players with individual attackning skills.
Put in Freddy Adu, Torres, Bring In Robbie Rogers … PLAYERS WHO ATTACK !!

5. What ever the US National team is teaching our young strikers right now. They need to STOP.
Find out what the Brazilians , Argentinians, Dutch are dong. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

I AM THE BIGGEST US SUPPORTER WHO WAS SITTING IN GERMANY 2006 AND TO SUM IT UP
WE ARE STILL AT THE SAME PLACE YEARS AGO.

I WILL NOT GIVE UP SO I HOPE YOU WON’T

Hopefully, he can work on his tactics in the Gold Cup.

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Let’s be serious…Robbie Rogers showed in the Gold Cup that a good MLS player is not even close to international quality. Speed doesn’t matter when you can’t go 1v1 against a defender, or maintain possession. The only players in the Gold Cup that even deserve to be invited to a U.S. camp are Donovan, Hejduk, Ricardo Clark, and Stuart Holden. Only two MLS’ers, Donovan and Holden should be on the roster for South Africa 2010. Landon Donovan, like him or not, when playing well, is a threat. Stuart Holden grew up in Scotland til age 10, otherwise our stellar youth development would have screwed him up too. If you are American, and want to wear the US kit, you need to play outside the US, period. The only way to become international quality, is play against them on your club side day in/day out. You can’t do that in the US. I support the MLS, and want to see it succeed, but today, it’s a development league, and a place for over-the-hill players to go when they can’t hang in the top leagues. Sad, but true.

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