Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="SAMCRO, post: 2371345, member: 543"] Jermaine Jones speaks out on US soccer. It's worth the listen/watch. He's essentially saying younger US players should challenge themselves in Europe (go the harder route), and the US needs to hire a tough, honest coach who is gonna make guys earn/fight for their spot every time they come to camp. He gets in to why the rest of CONCACAF teams are no longer intimidated playing the US. [URL='http://soccer.nbcsports.com/2017/10/14/video-jermaine-jones-blistering-take-on-usmnt-future/']LINK[/URL] A couple of the 'highlights' : [I]“(Pulisic) decided with his family to go the hardest way, and he made it so I respect that but I want to see more kids hungry like that.... If you want to make the next step, what every fan is hoping, you have to be a coach to be straight. It hurts some times. It hurts MLS … but sometimes you have to talk the truth, and you need more players in the tough leagues.[/I] [I]“When Bob Bradley was the coach, how many players played in MLS? Most of the players came from Europe. You learn to get personality. You learn to get strong as a person.”[/I] [I]“It’s the fault of the whole system that players are not ready yet. If you take 25 year old player in MLS and compare them to a 19 year old player in Europe, the Europe player is farther in his brain and that’s not a good sign.”[/I] [I]“Jurgen (Klinsmann) called me to please call Jordan Morris. I talked with him and I asked him, ‘I know that Werder Bremen really wants you and you can play there. You can go farther.’ And he said, ‘You know what? I wanna go home. My dad is a doctor in Seattle and my mom bought me and my girlfriend a dog and all that stuff.’[/I] [/QUOTE]

Verification: First name of men's bb coach