USA Men's Soccer. Pochetino?

Now that I am an American, I can say that I have been a fan of the USA team for many years, and have seen a lot of disappointments along the way. But, for many years, I saw the team play hard and not quit, and at least you knew that the effort was there.

Soo, with that sad, it was very disappointing to see the team play against Bolivia and simply cruise like they were whiffing on something or other, instead of paying attention to the game and trying to be even better than they appeared.

It was strange, to see this "golden crayon colored" group of folks play ... I kept thinking about the likes of Howard, Dempsey, Keller and so many others that gave their all and were able, now and then to get a massive win ... but since the days of Klinsman (the idealist), the team has only played teams that would be considered mid-table by almost all of us ... thus the desire and ability to play better to beat a stronger team, never really developed ... and of course ... playing stupid, not realizing from past years how the CONCACAF teams played to hurt and disappoint (specially in their home turf -- throwing urine onto the field!!!) ... that Panama was not going to be easy, and they had to be careful and aware of the threat ... nope ... they went at it like ... I have no words for it, and after the red card, you saw a team fight a little but mostly it was to get the ball out of our half, and nothing else.

It is sad, that USA Soccer is going to take forever to make a decision, when time is already a factor towards the next World Cup, but in the end, I don't think that USA Soccer cares, and I can only hope/think that they will embarass themselves in the World Cup, and this will FINALLY cause a massive shake up in the whole thing, by putting WINNERS in place instead of idiots that are not exactly qualified to be there in charge of USA Soccer. These are also the same folks that do not support the Women's game, although selecting a coach that might make a difference, seems to be an interesting choice, but not something that they will do for the men's team ... gotta keep the program going ... the same as it has to bring up the folks that are now playing ... sadly, while doing well in Europe, they have not learned the hard facts of the Concacaf history to the USA team and how many teams conspire to make sure the USA does not make it ... as has happened at least once in a game that was given away, to ensure the USA did not get to the World Cup. 

This is a problem with the folks, and their knowledge of history ... of the games the USA has played ... but then the USA team is afraid to play the South American teams, and learn to get better, or play some more European teams so they can learn to play harder, and better ... so instead, we get to watch Colombia and Uruguay make passes twice faster than the USA can and catch the defense not organized, which is what this game is about ... but the USA thinks that driving the Model T forward is the only way to get a score, never mind that the opposing teams defense is laughing ... go ahead ... the defense is waiting for you.

I don't know what is needed, but the current manager is definitely not it ... and I think that his "process" likely has too much SECOND GUESSING on what the players do or did, and this casues a lot of hesitancy when playing a better team. 

In the end, it is not exactly the "system" that wins ... it is how the individual players are setup to succeed, and Berhalter ...  is not the capable coach to make that happen ... go USA ... go USA ... hopefully not to the trash can!