re: Best thing I've read RE: Klinsmann

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You don't think we have a better chance of winning the Belgium game with Donovan in instead of wondo

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I do, but I don't think the outcome would have been different.

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You gotta be shitting me. We got dominated by Ghana, Germany, and Belgium. The only game we should have won was against Portugal and we only got a draw.

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Dude, I've watched literally all four of our games from that WC probably 10+ times.

We did get fricking dominated by Germany, only the World Champions, God forbid the best team in the world dominates us. The same thing would have happened if Jesus fricking Christ was the USMNT manager.

However, we were hardly dominated by Ghana. We scored fast as hell, then we defended, quite well I might add for the next 80 minutes or so. Ghana dominated possession because we were satisfied with sitting back and not letting them beat us with their pace. Would you have preferred we go all out attack and then try and defend a team known for their pace on the counter all match? They fed ball after ball into the box, a majority of them being terrible or easily defended. Sometimes you're defense breaks though which was exactly what happened on Ayew's goal, which was a great passage of play. To say we shouldn't have won that game though is asinine.

Same thing against Belgium in terms of how we approached it. You're an actual idiot if you thought or expected us to go out there and command that match. We weren't going to just try and attack and play wide open with a legit top five team in the world. No matter what you think, we can't do it, especially when our top goal threat is out. So we tried to defend and counter when we could and it almost worked. I mean we kept them scoreless for 90+ minutes and even had a shot to win in regulation, but Wondo.

The fact that we're honestly claiming that the WC in 2014 wasn't a good showing is fricking unbelievable.

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There is no way you watched that game multiple times and still came to this conclusion

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Sorry, but I refuse to acknowledge that a team that finishes a match with three shots on target 'dominated'.

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History has shown that Jurgen is a fricking moron, but watching US Soccer is just not the same without Landon and Jurgen still being involved in the program.

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You pretty much hit it on the head. I am not a Landon fan, but we definitely miss his presence and poise out there. He was one of those guys that the moment never seemed too big for.

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To say we shouldn't have won that game though is asinine

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It's a stretch to even say we deserved a draw. We sure as hell didn't deserve to win.

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It's a stretch to even say we deserved a draw. We sure as hell didn't deserve to win.

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But we did.

Greece won the 2004 Euros and anyone who watched the matches would say the same thing. But guess what, they won the bitch. Doesn't matter how you do it, but if you win, you win. No contesting it or saying you shouldn't have won later on can take away from it.

Jesus, have any of you people ever actually sat back and been happy about any US soccer game, ever?

I didn't expect us to beat Germany, but our performance against them was pathetic and embarrassing.

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Call me completely crazy or whatever, but I find it very difficult to believe that someone can really say that the WC in 2014 was a failure based off of our results.

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I think the results were acceptable, but I think we played like shite.

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History has shown that Jurgen is a fricking moron, but watching US Soccer is just not the same without Landon and Jurgen still being involved in the program.

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It's still amazing to me how many people were ok with that decision and justified it in various ways. He's fat and out of shape. Well he finished third on the team in the pacer test, behind only Bradley and Beckerman. He quit on the team. Well, he got burnt out and took a mental health break, and later became a rare athlete who advocated for mental health awareness at a time when millions of Americans are struggling with a silent disease that often goes untreated and which has a huge stigma attached to it. He's out of form. Well he was player of the tournament in the gold cup the year before. He's a locker room cancer. Well he's incredibly respected by the players, actually, and is a leader on the pitch.

The sad fact of the matter is that Donovan could have been a starter at four positions for us from the start of that tournament. We traded the best player in our nation's history for a charlatan, and it's a decision that still rubs me wrong to this day.

Landon not being selected is the only sporting decision that will haunt me forever. I just will never understand it.