US wins the 2010 World Cup
Sure, I'm dreaming here but I think we're going to do fantastic in 4 years. The reason why is that we're in talks to add Juergen Klinsmann as our head coach. He led Germany to the Semifinals before losing to the eventual champs Italy. They were arguably one of the biggest surprises of the tournament this past year.
Klinsmann took over the German head spot amongts great controversy. He was a star of their 90, 94, and 98 Cup teams scoring 11 goals, 5th most in Cup history. But that wasn't the concern. It was because he's lived in America since retiring and the fact that his wife is American too. It doesn't seem like much to us but when you're a Euro and you're talking soccer, or football, well, America is like a four letter word. It's like Mexicans playing basketball. There could be some good ones out there but no one's seen them.
So he had a lot against him from the start with his American ties. Then he changed up their philosophy, going to a much more up tempo style of play. He also introduced American training methods that were non-existent in European soccer (resistance training, weights, etc). Many Germans were ready to fire him but then something happened. The team started winning and Germans loved him. He did so well that he had many arguing he was the best coach in soccer.
Reports surfaced that he was interested in coaching here and here we are today. With his interest and our available money it's only a matter of time before the partnership begins.
I see many things changing once he signs on. First off, he's already very familiar with our players having watched lots of games living in California. As an outsider, he probably noticed we were not attacking much in the last Cup. With his scoring background, he will likely put our forwards in much better position to score. I think you'll see a much better showing from Landon Donavan (who played like shit last time) and better passing all around.
The previous coach, Bruce Arena, went with 1 forward for a couple of the matches and it backfired miserably. He tried Donovan at the forward spot and it took away from his midfield control as he had the ball less than normal. I think Klinsmann will play a much more attack friendly style (like the Houston Dynamo) and it will take advantage of our quickness. This, along with his background, will have the American players much more attentive than they were with Arena. There were reports in the first match in the last Cup of players not happy with his style.
So memo to US Soccer. If you do anything right, please make it be this. Sign Klinsmann and watch us do well four years from now. Sure we may not win it all (and I highly doubt we will) but we'll be much improved from our 06 showing and I think we'll return to our 02 form when we were in the Semi's.
Klinsmann took over the German head spot amongts great controversy. He was a star of their 90, 94, and 98 Cup teams scoring 11 goals, 5th most in Cup history. But that wasn't the concern. It was because he's lived in America since retiring and the fact that his wife is American too. It doesn't seem like much to us but when you're a Euro and you're talking soccer, or football, well, America is like a four letter word. It's like Mexicans playing basketball. There could be some good ones out there but no one's seen them.
So he had a lot against him from the start with his American ties. Then he changed up their philosophy, going to a much more up tempo style of play. He also introduced American training methods that were non-existent in European soccer (resistance training, weights, etc). Many Germans were ready to fire him but then something happened. The team started winning and Germans loved him. He did so well that he had many arguing he was the best coach in soccer.
Reports surfaced that he was interested in coaching here and here we are today. With his interest and our available money it's only a matter of time before the partnership begins.
I see many things changing once he signs on. First off, he's already very familiar with our players having watched lots of games living in California. As an outsider, he probably noticed we were not attacking much in the last Cup. With his scoring background, he will likely put our forwards in much better position to score. I think you'll see a much better showing from Landon Donavan (who played like shit last time) and better passing all around.
The previous coach, Bruce Arena, went with 1 forward for a couple of the matches and it backfired miserably. He tried Donovan at the forward spot and it took away from his midfield control as he had the ball less than normal. I think Klinsmann will play a much more attack friendly style (like the Houston Dynamo) and it will take advantage of our quickness. This, along with his background, will have the American players much more attentive than they were with Arena. There were reports in the first match in the last Cup of players not happy with his style.
So memo to US Soccer. If you do anything right, please make it be this. Sign Klinsmann and watch us do well four years from now. Sure we may not win it all (and I highly doubt we will) but we'll be much improved from our 06 showing and I think we'll return to our 02 form when we were in the Semi's.
posted by christopher at 10:15 AM
2 Comments:
Well, can you settle with the Dynamo being champs for the mean time. Did you watch the game, it was incredible the way it ended..
the game was amazing. i actually turned the channel when twellman scored in OT. but i turned back a few mins later and was shocked. man was i nervous for the pk's
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