re: Jurgen Klinsmann blames the refs, calls U.S. fans dumb and shits on the MLS

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On whether he’s upbeat about American soccer’s future …

“The amount the game is played now, and kids discovering soccer is their game, is definitely upbeat. The way the game is educated, told, driven, we are still far away from real soccer nations. The biggest educational problem is people think it’s a coaches’ game in the United States. It’s not. It’s a players’ game. There’s too much emphasis on telling people what to do. If the teaching part is too big, you will only have players who react to what the teacher or coache tells them. I am looking for personalities. I am looking for players that drive the game. I am looking for them to step itup and say they can do this. I hope to see more. No matter whether they are playing in Europe or Mexico or MLS, we hope to see more of them take the game in their hands, so now you go to the next level, wherever they play, we wish to have an influence on the way the game is being communicated. I purposely don’t say the way it’s being ‘taught.’ I say ‘being communicated.’ We need people to understand the players have to drive it, take initiative, make decisions and get it to another level, and then you [as a coach] are a guide on the outside and you can help. You need them to understand, ‘I can give you all the information I can, but I’m not going to score the goals for you. You have to go in there and beat the [heck] out of defenders and put the ball in the net and figure it out yourself.’

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