Results in Italy, Mexico, and Russia in one year

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Loss to Jamaica for the first time ever. Nearly drew with Antigua & Barbuda Drew to a very bad Guatemala team Slow your roll sir. It's been probably our lightest fixture list since 2008. Klinsmann has acquitted himself very nicely in difficult friendlies. I'll withhold judgment until he can get us three points in a competitive away fixture not played in Antigua

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Hopefully you saved Sheep from having to make this same post. It's good someone did, though, b/c I had forgotten that it wasn't a perfect season. Oh, and quickly go find me the last time a USMNT coach had to play so many games without Landon Donovan. Did Jamaica even have a team before LD came on the scene?

I'll gladly trade a win @ Azteca for the loss to Jamaica.

All this makes me believe we'd be better off qualifying through UEFA instead of playing against the Island and Central American powerhouses.

Seriously - we'd be put in a group with one good team like Italy, who we're clearly better than on their own soil, and then play Luxembourg, Israel, Norther Ireland, etc.

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Before I even clicked on this thread I knew you would be in here shitting on the OP.

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I'm not shitting on the OP. I'm pointing out the need to temper our expectations and not over-flatter ourselves with a decent national team season.

Friendly results are nice. There's a massive difference in how international teams prepare for and manage friendlies versus how they prepare for competitive fixtures.

How many goals did we score in the first half of our major friendly victories this season?

Zero. We scored all of our goals in those games after making mass substitutions; something we can't do in competitive fixtures.

I like Klinsmann's attitude on football. I like that he's scheduled these difficult games away from home and gotten spectacular results. I don't put much stock in them, because the rest of the world largely ignores friendly results. The only great result was the Azteca win. That was a half full Azteca. If Klinsmann can do that in qualifying in the 4 pm heat with the bags of piss flying, I'll be ecstatic.

And what exactly has Klinsmann done to the American soccer system less than two years into his tenure as manager? Someone give me tangible evidence or a link to a grassroots development program he's initiated. Someone prove that we played Klinsmann's sexy attacking football in those big friendly wins.

Michael Bradley
Eric Lichaj
Timmy Chandler
Omar Gonzalez
Stuart Holden
Brad Guzan
Jermaine Jones
Sacha Kljestan
Jozy Altidore

Bob Bradley "discovered" players.

Klinsmann has found promising players. Don't undersell Bradley.

Claudio Reyna

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Experimented more with new players in one year than bob did in 4.

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I'm too lazy to look, but I'd bet money that Bob used more players in his first year than Klinsmann did. And a vast number of those players were crucial to qualification in 2010.

I'd guess it's a fairly large number more, too.

Where were Jay DeMerit, Benny Feilhaber and Charlie Davies in the beginning of 2007?

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Where were Jay DeMerit, Benny Feilhaber in the beginning of 2007?

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Hell, where are they now? I think we could use them.

I don't think JK has tried more players than Bob or whether that even matters. Bringing in Fabian is obv a huge deal.