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Message: [QUOTE="UConNick, post: 2365653, member: 3806"] 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. [/QUOTE]