Posted on 11/21/2016 5:29:18 PM PST by usafa92
Jurgen Klinsmann has been relieved of his duties as coach and technical director of the U.S. men's national team, U.S. Soccer announced on Monday.
According to Sam Borden of the New York Times, current Los Angeles Galaxy coach Bruce Arena is likely to replace Klinsmann on an interim basis. However, Borden notes that details have not been finalized. According to Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated, Arena could be announced as soon as Tuesday.
In a statement, U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati explained the move, which comes after the team's horrible start to the hexagonal round of World Cup qualifying. The U.S. lost to Mexico at home and then 4-0 at Costa Rica in a 4-day span earlier this month:
Today we made the difficult decision of parting ways with Jurgen Klinsmann, our head coach of the U.S. Men's National Team and Technical Director.
We want to thank Jurgen for his hard work and commitment during these last five years. He took pride in having the responsibility of steering the program, and there were considerable achievements along the way.
Many are aware of the historic victories, including leading us out of the Group of Death to the Round of 16 in the 2014 FIFA World Cup, but there were also lesser publicized efforts behind the scenes. He challenged everyone in the U.S. Soccer community to think about things in new ways, and thanks to his efforts we have grown as an organization and expect there will be benefits from his work for years to come.
While we remain confident that we have quality players to help us advance to Russia 2018, the form and growth of the team up to this point left us convinced that we need to go in a different direction.
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Where is Bruce Arena, and was it built with public financing?
Jurgen was a great player. As a manager, not so much. He took every bit of criticism and externalized it by way of blaming everyone and anyone. When the players got tired of the coach not having their backs, it was ovah.
Think it’s a mistake. Juergen took the US team to a far higher level of play and also was showing some real positives in player development.
No offense to Bruce Arena but this was too fast.
He should be in charge of player development, but maybe not the on field manager.
Not attacking your idea but we know that’s not a doable proposition.
That being said, CAF has never developed a World Cup champion. So it might not be that simple.
Isn’t he the leader of the Klu Klux Klin? We certainly don’t need a Klinsmann coaching our national team. Especially in a sport that has so much appeal to Mexican rapists.
LMAO. That’s exactly what I was going to post. :-P
Bruce was exciting in '02 then lost some footing. I like his position on building the team w/ US-born players. I am willing to go through the growing pains to develop our own boys instead of recruiting overseas.
The USMNT needs some magic. We still have no attack...let's face it, Jozy could!d not get it done; Demps is the best but he's going on 12 years on the ntl team!
Thanks for the ping HonkyTonkMan.
I like Klinsie but he is a bit of a flake. In America the fruits and nuts are attracted to California. In Germany they go to Florida.
Bruce Arena took the US to the Final Eight of the World Cup, and only a brilliant save from Oliver Kahn kept the US from at least tying Germany in the Quarter Finals.
Only a few days ago he was saying he had nothing to worry about because that’s how soccer goes. Flake.
I bet his contract is guaranteed. If you were looking at the possibility of being paid for years after getting fired would you be worried?
Except he was specifically talking about keeping his job.
Or he was specifically talking about not really worrying. Really though a coach at the pro level has to be 100% confident all the way up until they get fired. Otherwise they can’t do their job. You see the same thing in all sports, coaches on the hot seat always say they’re not worried, even the ones that don’t make it to their office from the press conference.
Or you’re just being a silly waste of my time.
What I said was completely serious. Really, when was the last time you saw a coach at a major level say they were worried about their job security? I’m betting NEVER, because they just don’t say that. Even if they look off stage and see the owner and the GM and a pile of boxes the answer is always “I am confident my position is secure”. That’s reality, that is the answer that MUST be given, doing otherwise is unprofessional and impedes their ability to get the next job.
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