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Is Jürgen Klinsmann a coaching improvement for the United States Men’s National Team?
Despite being a legendary German striker and a certified soccer great, the answer to that question is, “No.”
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Neymar facing off against Andrea Pirlo and Italy. © Getty Images
As with the announcement of all Brazilian national team rosters, some player selections went over better with the Brazilian public than others, and Ronaldinho received a hardcore snub from Brazil’s coach Felipão to the dismay of soccer and football fans around the world.
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Joe Corona. (Photo: Club Tijuana)
Jürgen Klinsmann has no excuse for keeping Joe Corona as a benchwarmer for the United States Men’s National Team in World Cup qualifiers.
There is no excuse: not his age, not his skill level, not his club form, not the league he plays in, not the position he plays, not his work rate, and not his playing style.
Joe Corona satisfies any criteria that Klinsmann chooses to look at.
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The United States cannot afford to leave players of Juan Agudelo’s ability off its roster. © Jeff Zelevansky / Getty Images
Jürgen Klinsmann omitted a shocking amount of proven and talented players from the May/June United States Men’s National Team roster. Whether it was outside backs, center backs, or attacking players, Klinsmann’s newest roster ignores major weaknesses with the USMNT.
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Time for Jürgen Klinsmann to return to a formula that works. © Martin Meissner / AP Photo/
The United States Men’s National Team roster selected to participate in two friendlies (Belgium and Germany) and three World Cup qualifying games (Jamaica, Panama, Honduras) contains several solid, international-caliber selections, but the roster also fails to correct weaknesses in the balance and technical ability of previous rosters.
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Jürgen Klinsmann (left) has been making illogical tactical decisions as the coach of the USMNT. © Associated Press
Commentary:
Does anyone know what Jürgen Klinsmann is doing?
Does Jürgen Klinsmann know what he is doing?
Everyone has to play with the hand they were dealt, but Jürgen Klinsmann is having trouble fielding a proactive United States Men’s National Team in a country with over 300 million people.
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Joe Corona
Jürgen Klinsmann stated that the American players called up to the roster to face Belgium and Germany would likely be the same players who would appear on the Gold Cup roster. This plan seems to be flawed because the performance of players against Belgium and Germany should affect who Klinsmann calls up to the United States Men’s National Team for the 2013 Gold Cup.
In light of the performances of certain players in Major League Soccer and other leagues and the fact that Klinsmann announced that Stuart Holden would be on the Gold Cup roster, World Soccer Source proposes the following 23 players for the United States’ Gold Cup roster:
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Ronaldinho Gaúcho
Ronaldinho Gaúcho was really feeling it yesterday as he destroyed São Paulo.
Enjoy the various videos below of his beat down (PORRADA) on São Paulo:
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Benny Feilhaber is a vital player for the USMNT, but Jürgen Klinsmann has frozen him out. (Photo: ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP/Getty Images)
Player selection is everything for a national team coach. The players a national team calls up is the single most important talking point for evaluating how a national team coach is doing, and the second most important thing is which players are started.
There are only a handful of players who Jürgen Klinsmann has been regularly calling up to the United States Men’s National Team who are vital players.
Only seven players who Klinsmann regularly calls up are vital players for the USMNT, and two of them are goalkeepers: Tim Howard, Brad Guzan, Geoff Cameron, Omar Gonzalez, Fabian Johnson, Michael Bradley, and Clint Dempsey.
There is lots of room for improvement within the Starting XI, while still keeping the international-caliber players who form the backbone of the squad.
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Benji Joya (8). The Future. (Photo: ISIPhotos.com)
Comment:
It’s time for Jürgen Klinsmann to roll up the yoga mats and lead from the front.
Klinsmann has never even attempted to field line-ups to play the type of proactive soccer he promised.
Tab Ramos now seems more like the right person to coach the United States Men’s National Team.
The reason for hiring Klinsmann was to hire a coach who would be more willing to call up and play the types of players who could raise the quality of the United States Men’s National Team’s play. Instead, the United States got a more defensive coach than Bob Bradley.
Putting players on the field who can play at Clint Dempsey’s, Michael Bradley’s, Geoff Cameron’s, and Benny Feilhaber’s level will require change, lots of change.
The players listed above aren’t satisfied with trying to merely put in a good showing against top national teams; they want to quickly move the ball around the field and win.
How far are Jürgen Klinsmann and his staff willing to go to use players who can play one-to-two touch soccer with the world’s best?
Klinsmann and company will have to call up a new type of USMNT roster and actually use the players with all the tools and gifts to improve the USMNT, but many of them are considered “raw,” “inexperienced,” “unproven,” and “too young” for many Americans.
The coaching staff of the United States Men’s National Team needs to make changes and call up the following players for international play:
