Did Klinsmann Meet With USSF?

Klinsman’s demands are absolutely right. You get what you pay for. If the US wants to become a credible force in the sport, they need to shell out the money for a world class manager. And no domestic coach will bring the US to any level beyond an also-ran.

He is also absolutely correct in demanding that the MLS undergo serious structural reorganization. In fact, I think it would be better to dismantle it and just pick up the remains to do a major overhaul. Its entire approach to the sport in this country guarantees that the US will never be anything more than a pathetic amateur on the international level.

The way the sport is run in this country is an embarrassment and a disaster. The US will never succeed in the sport as long as the MLS refuses serious foreign bids like the one Charlton made for Clint Dempsey and as long as the MLS fixates on recruiting players out of college. The MLS treats football (soccer) like a sport for privileged, mostly white kids. No successful footballing nation bases their recruitment on the college level.

Plus, all over the world football clubs are independent entities who can buy and sell players at will. In the US, it’s the MLS that’s in complete control over the entire league.

The MLS doesn’t know the first thing about how to promote the sport and improve the US player base. Klinsman’s demands are absolutely on target.

As long as the MLS refuses to see this, the US will continue to disappoint on the international stage. It’s not that the US is incapable of coming up with good or even great players. It’s that the MLS is thoroughly incompetent in advancing the sport in this country, and it doesn’t know the first thing about nurturing players from a very young age. Just contrast the way England’s Theo Walcott and the US’ Freddy Adu were scouted and nurtured.

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Sorry, a correction:

I talked about the MLS instead of the USSF in my post. But I think the points I make still apply.

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Isn’t $2 million actually a little on the low side for a top-flight international manager? Sven-Goran Eriksson was making at least $5 million a year when he managed England. (We’ll leave aside questions as to whether SGE was actually a top-flight manager; what matters is that they paid him like one.)

I have no idea what structural changes he demanded at the USSF. Maybe they were smart ones.

I sort of have the sense that JK isn’t as much a miracle-worker as we’re hoping for, but I don’t know that anybody is. Gus Hiddink? But do we want a guy who’ll get us to perform well in one World Cup, or a guy who will help us build a serious long-term program? Could we get both?

Questions, questions.

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The record shows that for nations like the US that are not among the sport’s major powers, their performance improves in international competitions like the world cup only when they hire a foreign coach with credible experience in the sport. If the USSF goes with a US coach with no international experience, then even the lower level South Africa team with a spent force as Brazil’s Carlos Alberto Parreira (he did win a world cup) for a coach will perform better than the US in South Africa 2010. The only nations who can rely on domestic coaches are the established footballing nations.

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Um, if the US can pay football and basketball coaches that much, why can’t they do the same for soccer? Of course those are different organizations, but still. I agree with the person who said you pay for what you get. After Klinsi’s perforamnce at the World Cup, he is worth that, if not more.

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Considering the amount of money Basketball, Baseball, and NFL players recieve 2 million isnt much considering JK rep.

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NFL, NBA and MLB teams can pay that money because they have massive incomes. US Soccer isn’t going hungry, but they’re not in the same league financially.

JK may be worth $2 million a year, for the global name recognition as much as his coaching skills, but it’s still a lot for a US national team coach. It would be three/four times what Arena was getting.

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MLS was paying more than a million dollar to El Matahore Hernandez a really awfull worn out player….So why nobody had a coment about that before…..Or what about the German defender Lothat Mathaus million dollar fiasco ….Come on guys are we mental retarded

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Klinsmann is the man. I think with his drive, ambition and skills, the USA will have the best coach at a measly 2 mill. He did so much more than Pekerman and Sven. Remember, the Argentinians and English were much higher rated than the young German team. I like his new strategies too. I just read Mexico wants Klinsmann too, so USA, go get him.

Klinsmann is the man. I think with his drive, ambition and skills, the USA will have the best coach at a measly 2 mill. He did so much more than Pekerman and Sven. Remember, the Argentinians and English were much higher rated than the young German team. I like his new strategies too. I just read Mexico wants Klinsmann too, so USA, go get him.

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Thnkas Klinsman

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