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Originally Posted by demonrail666
As per that article you linked, Klinsmann should've never been given the role of head of development and head coach. It's just far too big a conflict of interest. I agree with you about his value as a scout and could definitely see him working well purely in a developmental role, but as a manager he's always struck me as someone who doesn't want players so much as devotees. You have to be seriously successful to pull that off, with a really solid record, but, as a manager, what has he actually won, in terms of titles?
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yes, exactly, that is a good discussion. there's a conflict in the positions, and there's a problem managing veterans that way, etc. which is why i linked it. it's a good line of argument.
at this point time i don't think that's so terrible however. because we're never gonna have perfect, and he's as good as the US has right now. it's not like we have fergie waiting in the wings. there's a certain advantage in having the technical director as manager which is he has the power to shape the future by locking down the present-- i.e., "be a pro or GTFO". he's setting standards. once the standards are set, he can leave it to someone else.
the real problem is that the current standards are low.
i'd be happy to have it sitting as technical director if we can find a better manager for the team-- but who? bradley no fucking way. arena was good in his time but he's not ambitious enough. one could always hire a nomadic coach like bora in his day. hristo stoichkov knows us soccer but his coaching career is pretty awful.
please point out one-- i'm not saying this to be a contrarian, i'd like to see an alternative but i just can't.
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Originally Posted by demonrail666
And yeah, you did better than expected in the last WC, thanks largely to Portugal having a meltdown and Tim Howard playing out of his skin.
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and finally beating ghana who had previously punked us repeatedly.
getting out alive of that group was much better than the tie vs. england in 2010 when gerrard scored early only to have an easy ball slipping out of your keeper's hands and gift us a tie--- which was arguably our previous world cup moment of glory.
in 2002 when we reached quarterfinals... portugal had a worse meltdown (beaten by korea too) and no CR7's magic goals. then in the round of 16 we faced who? our old neighborhood rival mexico. to quarterfinals, but too easy.