USMNT Roster for Panama, T&T

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

So, US U-17 World Cup ... glimpse at some of the future:
Thur 10:30 am ET FS2, Universo.

 

[UConnDan97]

Bruce should have to give a public apology to two people tonight.

To Pulisic, who absolutely deserved to play in his first World Cup.

To Dempsey, who absolutely deserved to play in his last...

 

[SAMCRO]

Time to hit the reset button. Bring in new everything/everyone. Every friendly until WCQ or the next Gold Cup needs to be young, fresh, up and coming talent mixed in with the guys who actually give a $#!+. Pathetic.

 

[UCFBfan]

Seriously what is really going to change. JK may not have been great but flat out showed that the US System was flawed in how they were growing players. He challenged MLS and was shut down. Not saying he was not at fault for some of this disaster but to say I have hope that the US fixes this after tonight, is hard to say.

I just can’t see how they fix this. The MLS is terrible yet runs the show in this country. Not sure how they get this right but I’m not holding out hope.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Time to walk Bruce Arena out of the building. That chubby arrogant putz.

Walk? Roll "That chubby arrogant putz" straight off a Caribbean industrial dock

 

[ZooCougar]

Walk? Roll "That chubby arrogant putz" straight off a Caribbean industrial dock

He can take MOTM Altidore with him.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Time to hit the reset button. Bring in new everything/everyone. Every friendly until WCQ or the next Gold Cup needs to be young, fresh, up and coming talent mixed in with the guys who actually give a $#!+. Pathetic.

Watch which players the USSF brings in for pay day games against actual World Cup qualifying nations. Thanks Sunil and Bruce!

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

He can take MOTM Altidore with him.

Which one's the weighted anchor?

 

[CardiacAndre7]

He can take MOTM Altidore with him.

What did your man Bobby Wood do tonight. This is not defending Jozy, he was awful, but how about Wood?

 

[SAMCRO]

This settles one domestic 'debate'... I won't be going to Russia next summer (my wife will be happy). I may tell her I just decided not to go, and not tell her the US is out... she doesn't follow it at all.

 

[progrocks]

I was just about to start looking at flights to Australia when Panama scored that goal. Saved me a ton of money on that.

 

[ZooCougar]

What did your man Bobby Wood do tonight. This is not defending Jozy, he was awful, but how about Wood?

He did more than Dozy. Plus Mr. 41 goals should be leading by example right?

Let's hope he never gets a chance to get #42.

 

[SAMCRO]

But I would have liked to have seen the Netherlands, Wales, or Chile come in and do better than the US did tonight...

 

[CardiacAndre7]

He did more than Dozy. Plus Mr. 41 goals should be leading by example right?

Let's hope he never gets a chance to get #42.

Did he really? Cuz I can't distinguish the two performances.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Goalies: Sincere thanks to Tim Howard for his tremendous past contributions, some thanks to to Guzan, and good guy Rimando, but which 3 guys now step up and step in for all pay-day games against legitimate World Cup qualifying teams?

 

[UCFBfan]

Bet Fox is really wishing they hadn’t won the rights to next years WC! I know many will still watch but you won’t get the casual fans they were banking on. Will be interested to see how this affects viewership numbers next summer.

 

[ZooCougar]

 

[LIuconn]

This doesn't happen to Jurgen

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Goalies: Sincere thanks to Tim Howard for his tremendous past contributions, some thanks to to Guzan, and good guy Rimando, but which 3 guys now step up and step in for all pay-day games against legitimate World Cup qualifying teams?

My guess is Hamid, Horvath and Jesse Gonzalez. Good amount of young keepers too with Steffen, Klinsmann, Will Pulisic, and a few others playing abroad. But the top three are the immediate candidates IMO.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Will be interested to see how this affects viewership numbers next summer.

Tank for all but the biggest name, actual World Cup qualifying nations! Iceland v Iran: That'll get big #s!

 

[UConnDan97]

Seriously what is really going to change. JK may not have been great but flat out showed that the US System was flawed in how they were growing players. He challenged MLS and was shut down. Not saying he was not at fault for some of this disaster but to say I have hope that the US fixes this after tonight, is hard to say.

I just can’t see how they fix this. The MLS is terrible yet runs the show in this country. Not sure how they get this right but I’m not holding out hope.

This isn't due to the MLS. Well, maybe it is if you consider that both game winners from Panama and Honduras play in the MLS.

Arena is squarely to blame for tonight, and Klinsmann for putting us in a hole to begin with. Arena tried to be too smart for his formation and Klinsmann tried to be too smart with his roster selections, which changed more often than my underwear.

There are more than enough pieces here to beat friggin Trinidad. If you don't, your a friggin dummy.

Milutinovic would have taken this same roster and would have finished top 2. That's the difference. Pay a world class coach, for !

 

[UConnDan97]

Bingo! I like Twellman a lot and he nailed it on the head. Exactly what I'm saying...

 

[UCFBfan]

That is epic!

 

[UConNick]

Utterly disgusted. Our Federation has long been pulled between embracing the international nature of the game and our domestic values. But no longer. We have to embrace international tendencies in this sport if we ever want to rebound from this failure and meet our potential. Our models work for our sports, but not this one. Probably should have never fired Jurgen, he brought the European influence that could've moved us forward and reformed in the correct direction. The MLS is nice. But its current restrictions and makeup (i.e. Salary caps and no pro/rel) put a ceiling on it as a league and our national team. We can't cater to MLS when there are better, younger players at European clubs. Either the league and federation has to change or we won't prosper ever. Until the MLS is an internationally-respected league (which it will be, I believe, one way or another) our best players need to be in Europe. Guys like Bradley and Altidore should have never come back while in their primes. This combined with Ukraine's home loss to Croatia yesterday have me feeling more pessimistic about soccer than ever. I'm probably coming down too hard on MLS (because everyone really deserves the blame) but I'm currently beyond upset. /rant.

 

[jrazz12]

This isn't due to the MLS. Well, maybe it is if you consider that both game winners from Panama and Honduras play in the MLS.

Arena is squarely to blame for tonight, and Klinsmann for putting us in a hole to begin with. Arena tried to be too smart for his formation and Klinsmann tried to be too smart with his roster selections, which changed more often than my underwear.

There are more than enough pieces here to beat friggin Trinidad. If you don't, your a friggin dummy.

Milutinovic would have taken this same roster and would have finished top 2. That's the difference. Pay a world class coach, for !

Dan, I love ya, but this is absolutely not on Klinsmann at all. We lost to the top 2 teams in the group under Klinsmann, with the whole hex left to play. When in the end, all you need to do is TIE TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO and can't do it, we don't get to point to losses to #1 Mexico at home and #2 Costa Rica away as the reason we're out.

Klinsmann may have rubbed people the wrong way and probably was not the answer, but USSF needs someone to come in and blow up the whole system from the ground up. Klinsmann was axed for suggesting as much and shaking up roster selection and development in a way that threatened the precious MLS and ole boy network.

Everyone at USSF needs to go. Everyone.