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Arena Says He Has No Interest Coaching USMNT for Next World Cup Cycle
Posted on 10/12/17 at 4:37 pm
Posted on 10/12/17 at 4:37 pm
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But here is the big ticket item:
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“Obviously, I have no interest in going on a four-year cycle right now,” the 66-year-old coach told the Post. “I’ll do whatever is right. That is the approach I am going to take.”
But here is the big ticket item:
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"The criticism on Sunil is unfair,” Arena told the Post. “Why is the president of the federation responsible for the result on Tuesday?”
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Posted on 10/12/17 at 4:38 pm to Shane4689
Tell him to ask Taylor Twellman.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 4:42 pm to Shane4689
That's like me saying I'm sorry to turn down the offer to replace Yaw Yaw as LSU football coach. Can you really turn down what was never going to be offered?
I really hope Gulati announces soon he isn't running for reelection as president. If not, I'm very concerned about the future of US Soccer. The next president will potentially determine the trajectory of the next few decades of US Soccer. Let's hope a good one takes the reigns and makes the changes that clearly need to be implemented.
I really hope Gulati announces soon he isn't running for reelection as president. If not, I'm very concerned about the future of US Soccer. The next president will potentially determine the trajectory of the next few decades of US Soccer. Let's hope a good one takes the reigns and makes the changes that clearly need to be implemented.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 4:45 pm to Shane4689
What an arrogant, tone-deaf, jackhole this guy has turned out to be. To think how great of a coach he was at UVa, D.C. United and USMNT all those years ago and then read this total "headuptheassness" is frustrating. He needs to be slapped a few times in public.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 4:58 pm to Shane4689
Didn't seem like he was all that interested in coaching the team for this World Cup cycle either. 
Posted on 10/12/17 at 4:59 pm to Shane4689
i have decided i won't be making love to kate beckinsale tonight.
This post was edited on 10/12/17 at 5:01 pm
Posted on 10/12/17 at 5:05 pm to RedPop4
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What an arrogant, tone-deaf, jackhole this guy has turned out to be
He never turned into this, he was always this, it just doesn't bother you when they're winning.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 5:10 pm to Shane4689
I also have no interest in Arena coaching the USMNT for the next World Cup cycle
Posted on 10/12/17 at 5:52 pm to Shane4689
Turning down a permanent offer to a temp job he failed at. Bruce, I thought you were better.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 5:59 pm to Shane4689
It's easy to not be interested in something you won't be asked to do.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 8:03 pm to Shane4689
He is as much of a fucstick as Jurgen was.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:04 pm to kilo
I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I can't put too much of this on Bruce. I understand the "we're playing retreads" argument, but what the hell was he supposed to do? We brought him in after losing the first 2 matches in the hex with a -5 differential. He didn't really have an opportunity to shape the squad and integrate new players. He didn't have much wiggle room to experiment.
He clearly was not the answer long term and we knew that when they hired him. That being said, others have posted there was ONE possible scenario out of 27 that would have us not qualify. He had the odds in our favor if NOTHING else. I honestly don't think we would be in a different position if we had kept JK.
This comment is absolutely hilarious though. He was a caretaker to get us qualified from the get-go. Even when everyone was hopeful he would get us qualified nobody wanted him past this cycle.
He clearly was not the answer long term and we knew that when they hired him. That being said, others have posted there was ONE possible scenario out of 27 that would have us not qualify. He had the odds in our favor if NOTHING else. I honestly don't think we would be in a different position if we had kept JK.
This comment is absolutely hilarious though. He was a caretaker to get us qualified from the get-go. Even when everyone was hopeful he would get us qualified nobody wanted him past this cycle.
This post was edited on 10/12/17 at 11:22 pm
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:38 pm to Srbtiger06
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but what the hell was he supposed to do?
Adequately prepare his team to get a point at Trinidad&Tobago
Posted on 10/13/17 at 12:50 am to kilo
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He is as much of a fucstick as Jurgen was.
Yup just calling up his old MLS buddies really panned out
As well as just rolling out the same 11 bc it worked before and not adjusting for opposition or venue.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 8:32 am to Srbtiger06
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I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I can't put too much of this on Bruce. I understand the "we're playing retreads" argument, but what the hell was he supposed to do? We brought him in after losing the first 2 matches in the hex with a -5 differential. He didn't really have an opportunity to shape the squad and integrate new players. He didn't have much wiggle room to experiment.
He clearly was not the answer long term and we knew that when they hired him. That being said, others have posted there was ONE possible scenario out of 27 that would have us not qualify. He had the odds in our favor if NOTHING else. I honestly don't think we would be in a different position if we had kept JK.
This comment is absolutely hilarious though. He was a caretaker to get us qualified from the get-go. Even when everyone was hopeful he would get us qualified nobody wanted him past this cycle.
I'm not saying Bruce is the overwhelming reason we didn't make it - but his tactics were naïve and stupid vs. what we needed to achieve, in several of the matches. In a crap field where we only needed a point, we should not have been playing such an attacking line-up vs. T&T. That's just common sense.
Plus his squad rotation, lack of use of some healthy players, etc. left a lot of questions. Why Omar instead of Cameron - especially for the T & T game?
So basically - I agree that he couldn't reshape the roster, but that doesn't mean he didn't make a frick ton of mistakes, (and then repeat those mistakes) in the games he was in charge. Some of his line-up and tactics were rec league coach bad.
One out of 27 game results - and yet we should have never been in that position to begin with (plus, the odds are much higher than 1 out of 27 as soon as we went down, because Costa Rica and Mexico are throwing their matches) That's why Sunil's "we don't make reactions to a ball being 2 inches in or wide" comment is BS. We should never have been in the position to where an OG and a wonderstrike against an aging GK should have kept us out of the World Cup. The fact that we were speaks much bigger issues than one game.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 11:46 am to StraightCashHomey21
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Yup just calling up his old MLS buddies really panned out
As well as just rolling out the same 11 bc it worked before and not adjusting for opposition or venue.
Bruce sucks, but because he wasn't Jurgen you couldn't say a thing about him without being blasted.
We've seen this before from him.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 1:57 pm to dgnx6
He gone.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 2:24 pm to Shane4689
Hey Bruce,
Go frick yourself.
Go frick yourself.
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