Spot on Keys. What we all want(I think)is an identity for American soccer. With the ever growing Latin influence in the country a hybrid of attacking flair and European style strength in defense would be perfect. Gernamy has this with their young Turkish influence. It would be a great model to emulate.

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Posted by Keys Open Doors

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Posted on 7/29/11 at 6:33 pm to glassman

Yeah, I mean the German generation completely changed from their traditional prototype in the past few years.

Klinsmann and Low will get credit for this, but I bet that demographics and cultural attitudes are more responsible. Guys like Yildiray Basturk would never have played for Germany (and he would have beaten out Odonkor every day on that 2006 team), but now they are getting half the desirable German Turks (Mesut and Serdar Tasci go to Germany, Ekici and Nuri go to Turkey, for example), and integrating their playing style perfectly. I'd love for the U.S. to become a lesser version of the new German national team for the time being.

And I'd like to figure out why our defenders allow so many more counter-attacking goals when they aren't noticeably slower than the Germans (are any of them besides Lahm really fast? I don't think so).

These two guys do deserve credit for accepting the change though.

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Posted by VATIDE17

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Posted on 7/29/11 at 9:38 pm to glassman

I like this. The US needs an identity and I think a cross between latin flair and german physical style is the best mesh. I dont think this hire wins us a world cup but I think it lays the ground work. I think he can lay the groundwork to make us a regular 1/4 final team

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