**Official USMNT Soccer Thread** Vol: USMNT OUT of the World Cup... What's NEXT?

Nice by Weston. Dude will be a beast soon enough!

 

Horvath man. Lost the starting job in Belgium last week because he's been suspect as **** on aerial balls and crosses for 1st place Club Brugge.

 

Poor guy

 

Glad the diving and time wasters of Honduras are not going. Dudes are trash!!

 

Just got my tickets for USA vs Bosina at Stubhub in January.
Keep the young guns rolling!
I really hope Pulisic is called up for this game!

 

Usually not a FIFA date . I will be there also though my friend got 5 tix not sure which section though . But it’s always fun to be there for January camp

 

I am used to going every January game, but this coming year I will pass.These scumbags like Gulatti are not getting any of my hard earn money anymore. No games, no items, no jerseys, nothing. Till they fire or get rid of him.

 

this

 

I'm throwing my hat in with Kyle Martino for US footy prez.

I always appreciated this thoughtful commentary. It was always intelligent, from from the bombast, & whenever he had criticisms, he had answers for them which a lot of analysts don't offer.

Props to home for quitting his NBC Sports gig so he can start building his consensus for the job. He's already got endorsements from Becks & Thierry Henry.

Spoiler: Becks & Thierry Henry Endorsements

His platform -
■ Transparency. Chief among his goals are commissioning an outside audit to study “the ethics of how U.S. Soccer is being run” and to make the position of federation president a full-time, paid post. Martino said one of his initial motivations in publicly declaring that he would not run recently was to highlight the fact that the position is currently unpaid, because that “creates a barrier for entry to qualified candidates.”

■ Equality. A prime area of concern for Martino, he said, is youth players who are being priced out of the game by the financial barriers they encounter, but also players at all levels who feel “unsafe” in locker rooms and what he calls “the mistreatment of our female athletes.”

“Our women are World Cup winners,” Martino said. “Why are they playing on artificial surfaces? Why are they sleeping in beds with bed bugs? Why aren’t they paid the same as the men? And if you look at the U.S. soccer structure, why don’t women have positions of influence? There are no good answers to these questions.”

■ Progress. Martino wants to enact new standards to measure it and to create centers throughout the country to foster it by teaching a curriculum “aggregated from some of the business soccer academies around the world” — for free — to the top youth players in the sport after casting “a wider net” find more prospects that the current system is missing. He also wants to assemble an advisory board of former players, top coaches and representatives from a variety of levels to make recommendations to the president on major decisions, such as hiring the head coach or technical director for the men’s national team.

He's also a strong advocate for brining home Tom Byer to infuse his knowledge to American youth footy like he's done in Japan & now doing in China.

Some of his young pupils include the likes of Aya Miyama, Kagawaw, Keisuke Honda, & Tadanari Lee to name a few. They all credit him for helping them become the players they are today.

Interestingly, the US federation hired him to begin a pilot program starting with preschool age kids.

 

color me shocked that you are remotely close to being ok with any of the candidates tbh @psk2310

 

I'm all in for (@EricWynalda): https://twitter.com/EricWynalda?s=09

I want pro/reg in this country. If MLS don't wanna play ball, let FIFA strip em of division 1 status and give it to usl. They planning to implement it within a few years.

 

Martino was on the Real Sports Soccer Sensei segment talking about Tom Byer and his approach to soccer development. If he's for Byer's approach, then I'm for him. Too much power is put into club culture's hands and a lot of them are more concerned about their resumes, and approval of USSF, than actual youth development.

I'm also for pro/rel as it's really the way for accountability throughout the sport. MLS is starting to piss me off, especially with them showing their true colors with allowing the Colombus Crew to potentially be relocated, despite the support of that community and actual success on the pitch.

 

From a recent interview Martino did...

 

YES

 

The best thing that’s happened to US soccer this year.

 

Kathy Carter threw her hat into the ring but she's the establishment's choice meaning garber & sunil wanted her to run. Here are my problems with her candidacy best summed up by comments I found on another site.

Spoiler: Why Kathy Carter's Candidacy Is Wrong

 

I took a glance at her Twitter this morning and saw all I needed to see.

She sounds like a robot programmed to say things her controller thinks people want to hear about the sport in this country.

I'm cool off the next MLS/SUM stooge.

 

Hail no to Carter as well. It'll be like Sunil never left

 

I'm on team NEVER SUM

Mandela, Obama, Ghandi, MLK. could all be with SUM and I would still oppose them.

 

has the idea of an outsider candidate been brought up??

like give me a Jurgen or a Juan Carlos Osario to consider being president of the USSF

 

The NASL are only mad at SUM because their own bs Traffic Sports got caught up in corruption and other ****. Trust that if they were the ones running things there would be no talk of promotion/relegation.

 

I don't really see the relevance but the pro/rel conversation doesn't start or end with NASL. That's ridiculous.

 

Damn bro, I sometimes do work for SUM. You're against me too?! j/k j/k I hope it's not her either.

 

*gasp*

Mods! Ban him!!
jk jk

 

I have no issue with the surface level stuff and events that SUM contributes to. There's no argument they have had an impact on the sport in this country and quite possibly deserve a place in the big picture of the development and growth heading into the future.

But to put them in the drivers seat? Bad move.