re: Extremely Detailed Article on the Last 7 Years of US Soccer on the Ringer

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The final roster wasn’t supposed to be announced until a week later, but that day, a few players were pulled aside as they walked off the practice field, about to be culled from the herd in shock. The setting was too informal,

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Be more dramatic please. They aren’t being told they have terminal cancer. They don’t need to be pulled into an office alone.

Would they have rather the staff not give a frick about telling them personally and announcing it on a piece of paper hung on a bulletin board, middle school style?

I have zero problem with the coaching staff personally telling someone they aren’t picked for the squad. Not sure how anyone can have an issue with that. Shows how fragile some of the players are/were

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but I will say doing it as they are walking off the practice field is a bad look.

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To each their own.

No place is going to be ideal. It’s the player whom needs to act professional though, it’s not like the team’s chopping block wasn’t looming.

It isn’t up to the players to decide when they think the squad is cut down and who should make it. Notice how you don’t hear Belgium’s squad moaning about Radja not making the cut.

I think the passing guard of players were entitled as frick and unambitious and that was more the problem than Jurgen.

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Asking the coach to act like a professional as well is too much?

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Definitely not lol. Jurgen did a lot wrong as well. It was truly a perfect shite storm.

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Klinsmann was supposed to be fired before we lost our first two games, but Sunil didn't pull the trigger after another US Soccer leader had an emergency heart transplant.

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Sunil is such a little bitch. Wanted all the power and control, but couldn't pull the trigger on a decision that was already made because he would take full responsibility.

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take full responsibility

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That's my biggest takeaway (although we already knew that pretty well). None of those frickers would ever take responsibility for failing. It was never Jurgys fault. Or Arenas. And apparently for Sunil it certainly wasn't his, it was the balls fault for going 2 inches (his penis size btw) the wrong way.

On how he told players that they weren't going to the World Cup, there's a right way and a wrong way. And the right way is uncomfortable and awkward and heart-breaking and you don't always get it right but that's the job you sign up for as coach.

- Anthony DiCicco

“I just want to score goals and go fishing.”
That's not your Captain. That's not the job.

Missing the olympics 2 cycles in a row and having no one from ages 24-28 step up really hurt us, IMO.

Didn't think it was possible, but it turns out Jurgen was an even bigger megalomaniac than we thought.

Also, it turns out Sunil was an even bigger babyback bitch than we thought.

Don’t make fun of gays or wse will be here with the quickness to lecture you