Klinsmann Interview with WSJ (aka Reigniting the holy war on here)

I read that earlier and came away with it confused as frick at how our technical director can use lack of youth as an excuse.

Props to Jurgen for that jedi mind trick.

But he's saying all this shite about how proving your worth in a domestic league is one thing, doing the same for the national team requires even more.

Yet, on our Copa roster, we have Michael Orozco who has made more appearances for the USMNT in 2016 than he has for Xolos.

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They wait until the age of 24 become rookies and take their profession serious enough.

I don't care for jurgen as our manager, be he is spot on here.

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Is he? We have some of those guys but he either won't call them up, won't give them a chance when he does call them up, or plays them in the wrong position.

So Miazaga at 20 for Cheslea

CCV at 17 for Spurs

Yedlin starting at 22

What the frick is this dude talking about?


Also claiming Hyndman has disappeared Jurgen

Exactly, the dude hates MLS, because he is European. There is a lot of damn good young talent in MLS.

Every single player besides Horvath, Castillo, Bedoya, Orozco, Brooks, Johnson, Wood, and Pulisic got their start in MLS. Brooks, jones, Johnson lived in Germany, Castillo and Orzco began their youth career in Mexico

Look at guys who played in MLS and where they are now or where

Dempsey- was a top 5 goal scorer in the EPL
Yedlin- Starting in the EPL
Cameron- Starting in the EPL
Zusi-played at high level in MLS, was our assist leader at the WC
Besler-started at the WC
Howard and Guzan both started in MLS and wound playing big roles for years in the EPL
Bradley- started in MLS, played in multiple leagues in Europe and started with Roma
Nagbe- MLS
Birnbaum- MLS
Kitchen- started in MLS now moving onto a European career
Beckerman- career MLS player
Wondo- career MLS player
Zardes- started in MLS and is looking to move to Europe

The American soccer system isn't broken, it needs to be tweaked in certain areas. It will be hard for American soccer to become Germany because there is too many other sports here. We arent Europe and will never be Europe, but you act like MLS is some shite league is bullshite

I have more faith in Jurgy now than ever before now.

give the talented kids a look, then shun them. make them make you look again. They either hone there skills become a man and earn there spot or get scared and fail.

Soccer is a simple game, there are times where tactics and strategy all go out the window and it comes down to individuals. Look at us last world cup. Were our players as skilled as others in out group ? no, in fact we had the least skillful players in our group. But who won that group?

everyone of our players was determined to out run and out hustle every player on the field, and that paid off. we made it out of a very difficult group. we even played a hell of game against a much better Belgium team. What let us down in that game? Skill. First off frick you wondo, but I bet he out ran, out hustled and played harder than most other skillful players in our pool and earned that spot.

what hes doing is giving the players that have skill a taste, this is where you want to be one day. Now GTFO and prove to me you can come back. And to prove that you need to play hard every single game.

Green we gave you a chance at WC14 because you have skills, you came on and scored. now go play every fricking game as hard as you can and earn a place on the USMNT.

What did green do? become a little bitch, skill didn't help to much there

Wood, heres a chance at the USMNT, we are giving you chance because you have skill, cool you scored but now you have to go back, score goals, win games, keep moving up professionally all on your own. can you handle it? yes he said because he aint no bitch.

What hes doing is weeding out the weak skilled players and forging hard working, determined, skilled professionals.

A lot of players have been given a chance and then couldn't handle it on their own after. Could the process have been handled differently? maybe. we could have babied them and held there hand while they struggled with moving to a new country leaving behind mommy and daddy. But I don't want a bunch of pussies like that on our team, even if they can finish a tap in (frick you wondo). I want some badasses hardened by fire and beat against the anvil. I want anger, passion and persistence.

Hes slowly adding more skill to the hard working players. Next world cup wood, pulisic and others will be there busting their asses for this team, and when the time comes, there skill will shine and they slot away the goal(frick you wondo)







I think I properly channeled jurgys jedi tricks and confused you all with that rant.

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WSJ: Younger players say you give little in the way of instruction, that you say things like “let your personality show,” or “make a statement.” Why do you speak in such generalities?

Klinsmann: When you go very specific, where do you start? Do you start with five bullet points? Or with 20? For every position, every system you want to play, every style you’re going to play? We do that here and there specifically before the games, but at the end of the day, they need to drive their own bullet points. They need to understand what makes me stronger, what makes me better.

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Sort of disconcerting that our technical director isn't doing much directing.

He's wondering why our younger players aren't figuring shite out, yet is refusing to do anything in the way of helping them find a path.

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Soccer is a simple game, there are times where tactics and strategy all go out the window and it comes down to individuals. Look at us last world cup. Were our players as skilled as others in out group ? no, in fact we had the least skillful players in our group. But who won that group?

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Germany


I upvoted though only because of

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(frick you wondo)

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Klinsmann is a bizarre individual. There are slivers of excellent points sprinkled throughout what he says and what he does but they are lost amidst every other strange and ridiculous thing he says and does. I honestly think he just does not get it. I think he understood how German soccer worked but failed in managing and executing it. With American soccer, I think he is failing not only to manage and execute it but also in understanding it.

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Klinsmann is a bizarre individual. There are slivers of excellent points sprinkled throughout what he says and what he does but they are lost amidst every other strange and ridiculous thing he says and does

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I'm not that convinced by Klinsmann and really never have been.

However, I can't be overly critical of the main point he seems to be stumbling around concerning some of the younger players.

I don't follow as closely as many of you guys.

However, it sure seems that many of the young players over the last few years were just as good -- or better -- when first capped at 18-21 years old as they are 3 or 4 years later.