There Needs To Be Some Serious Changes Here
So I've got to leave for work in about 45 minutes but it does not feel like a half holiday right now...
I changed my name on myspace.com this morning, it's now: FIRE BRUCE ARENA!
We got outplayed by Ghana, there's absolutely no way around it. But it's not necessarily the player's fault. A lot of blame has to be placed on DaMarcus Beasley and the most blame of all has to be placed on the ref for a really bad penalty call.
But beyond that a 1-1 tie, what the game should have been, still wouldn't have been enough to get us through. And what was Bruce Arena playing for the entire match? A friggin' 1-0 win! And once Ghana scored first, there was absolutely no point in still staying 4-5-1.
That was an amazing goal from Clint Dempsey though. I think that he earned himself a spot on some team in the Colaship next season - where he probably should have been already. Maybe Preston North End, eh? They still haven't replaced Eddie Lewis to keep their Yank quotient up to its usual.
Eddie Johnson started to make the game a lot more vibrant once he came on 62 minutes too late.
But, yeah, positives aside, Bruce Arena needs to be fired for playing tentatively the whole tournament. But it goes much further than that.
All of the neutrals I've talked to on the subject say that Bruce Arena didn't prepare the team properly during the tournament. But I think, and while thankfully they're not rubbing it in, that the preparation mistakes go all the way back through the friendlies.
We needed to schedule a lot more matches in hostile territory than we did. We needed to play more European teams. And for pete's sakes we can't turn down invitations to play in the Copa America!
In any other country on Earth, the coach would be gone after what happened to the United States team.
Well who did I recommend? I don't know. Anybody but Sven.
Actually, and I'm not kidding, Steve Nicol of the New England Revolution. He's never been afraid to take the Revolution overseas so why not the United States MNT? And he's a fiery Scot. Bruce Arena is fiery as well, during practice, but during the game he looked like he was sedated and resigned.
So yeah, in conclusion speaking of resigned...
If we want to be a realer footcer nation than we already are, Bruce Arena needs to go!
I changed my name on myspace.com this morning, it's now: FIRE BRUCE ARENA!
We got outplayed by Ghana, there's absolutely no way around it. But it's not necessarily the player's fault. A lot of blame has to be placed on DaMarcus Beasley and the most blame of all has to be placed on the ref for a really bad penalty call.
But beyond that a 1-1 tie, what the game should have been, still wouldn't have been enough to get us through. And what was Bruce Arena playing for the entire match? A friggin' 1-0 win! And once Ghana scored first, there was absolutely no point in still staying 4-5-1.
That was an amazing goal from Clint Dempsey though. I think that he earned himself a spot on some team in the Colaship next season - where he probably should have been already. Maybe Preston North End, eh? They still haven't replaced Eddie Lewis to keep their Yank quotient up to its usual.
Eddie Johnson started to make the game a lot more vibrant once he came on 62 minutes too late.
But, yeah, positives aside, Bruce Arena needs to be fired for playing tentatively the whole tournament. But it goes much further than that.
All of the neutrals I've talked to on the subject say that Bruce Arena didn't prepare the team properly during the tournament. But I think, and while thankfully they're not rubbing it in, that the preparation mistakes go all the way back through the friendlies.
We needed to schedule a lot more matches in hostile territory than we did. We needed to play more European teams. And for pete's sakes we can't turn down invitations to play in the Copa America!
In any other country on Earth, the coach would be gone after what happened to the United States team.
Well who did I recommend? I don't know. Anybody but Sven.
Actually, and I'm not kidding, Steve Nicol of the New England Revolution. He's never been afraid to take the Revolution overseas so why not the United States MNT? And he's a fiery Scot. Bruce Arena is fiery as well, during practice, but during the game he looked like he was sedated and resigned.
So yeah, in conclusion speaking of resigned...
If we want to be a realer footcer nation than we already are, Bruce Arena needs to go!
posted by incendiarymind at 9:11 AM
3 Comments:
I totally agree!!!!!!
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What is interesting is whether America will have the same coach next time around. Comparatively, it will be sad to say goodbye to one of the best attacking defenders maybe ever, in Roberto Carlos, but with a disappointing performance this World Cup and all the hype Bruce Arena and team USA recieved in Sports Illustrated and every other major media outlet, it will be easy to see Arena and others out the door. Yes, Arena had a marvelous career and helped acclamate Americans to the game, but his time is up. His coaching blunders are unforgiveable. In the Italy game, when we had a man advantage, he should have pulled Eddie Pope and not risked a second yellow card. Although, Eddie must know the situation and control himself, Bruce could have negated the situation and inserted a fresh, uncarded player, such as Beasley. Instead, Eddie played and was red carded and we lost the upper hand. Reyna...(goodbye!), who was stuck fondling the ball in the back gave up the equalizer.
The second major mistake took place in the final game versus Ghana when Arena made absolutely no strategical changes to try and win the game. We were obviously down and needed to attack. Bruce enters the second half playing the same formation, a 4-5-1. To people who don't know soccer, that means we were playing with a single attacker, in McBride, who played a helluva game, and it's going to be hard to say goodbye to the hardworking forward. With aging, he will most likely miss out in 2010. Beasley and Donovan need to take some notes on passion from him. However, even with all of his effort, the situation warranted another player our offensive scheme in the second half against Ghana. There was no doubt that we needed to make a change. And there is no doubt we need to make a change and bring in new blood. Thanks Bruce, but as the Donald would say..."you're fired!"
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