The last thing I want is as if something knows-all the British are telling American men’s national team – And its fans- how to do things. Far away from Nevertheless, it has been attractive to the previous month, which is truly close to the team during its visit in California, Missouri, Texas and Minnesota, as they have tried to move from caterpillar to butterfly.
The American team that I came to know is an outspoken, interesting and determined crew that is potential. It is as much engaged in the process of radical cultural change as it was in an attempt to lift it. Golden bowl,
This is a culture change that can be expressed by a voluntary term: aggression. Along with the ball and without aggression, aggression towards opponents (and critics), who dare to give anything to Americans, even near a dirty look.
Given the terrible defeat of the team turkey And Switzerland Prior to the Gold Cup, June started with the American football community either with taking it on its own scabs or missing stars versus often got entangled in bitter debate about emerging possibilities.
I thought I had seen as an outsider, a team was very conservative with the use of the ball. I felt that Maurisio Pchethino players were more scared of making mistakes, getting long in the media or – still worse – was again defeated that many fans would consider “minor” opponents, as they were eager to try to get out creative location and goal opportunities.
It is a young, relatively inexperienced bunch. So in the last few months, Savage has been that when this Gold Cup started, the squad was eager to not expose itself subconsciously to the risk.
A small example: against Saudi Arabia On June 19, the strategy was to play on the right side, overload the opponent there, then switch to the speed and release. Max arfasten (A similar success in this tournament) to the left. Repeatedly, this exciting defender, which performed somewhere between a wingback and winger, felt the risk of the prize charm.
After the match, he admitted that it was so important to conserve the 1-0 victory that he made an option that was less courageous than what he can do in general. “I have always been a natural attacking player,” Arfaston said, “But at the same time, the key is understanding the right moment to take that risk and be as unpredictable as possible.”
In the light of what happened later, he certainly chose correctly. Americans won. They grew up. And they eventually reached the final.
But after this, the people of Pochtino usually obtained the ball keeping in mind the ball, usually returning it to the team partner who gave him. Sterile circulation of shells. Their body size was closed at the pass reception, opponents were closed instead of receiving the ball at half a turn instead of American players and trying to punch and forces their opponents to pursue and dedicate their opponents in areas they did not really want to go.
There was nothing cowardice or stupid about those decisions. It just talks about a culture that is polarly polar, unlike players and coaching staff, really wants to achieve.
On the general subject of significant investigation and pressure, 37 -year -old center back Tim rem Told ESPN: “When you you increase the knockout stages, environment, pressure intensity, everything increases and it is important, it is important to understand that it is important to understand and not to be afraid of pressure, but rather to use it.”
Another Proviso: There is no question that the aggressive mentality was not in the show to lose Pchethino 2–1. Mexico Sunday night in the gold cup final. America was badly defeated, embraced and thus could not insist on a courageous, attacking attitude.
But … back on the process. It was no coincidence Tyler adams‘Fitness return helped the team’s trajectory. I will hand him the pulp.
“My favorite like every great athlete, Theory Henry, Lebron JamesPassed by failure, had to fall down before succeeding, “He said.” Growing in the red bull system, I learned that the way you play, it was okay to make mistakes, If You are trying to play further and do the right thing.
“I haven’t felt under pressure in any situation yet. I was always part of my attitude, as it was an aggressive style to try to play further … It doesn’t matter that your pass percentage is 90% if you were taught to play every time to try to play the ball every time.
If the adams reflects the poochtino ideology in the midfield, then the appetom in a creative sense (a title will go Christian When he returns) Diego Luna,
After america losing Guatemala In the semi -finals, I asked Luna about my back (10), its mythological position and the correlation between how he plays.
“Psychologically, it is important to move number 10 on your back,” he said. “Being that number 10 gives you a kind of freedom. You are for making. This is what everyone thinks that when you are wearing number 10: ‘This man is going to change the game in a second, he is going to do something special.”
Example is also a continuous effort to dare to say in the engine room, in the artistic field, and aggression, attitude and – also in the goalkeeping department.
Pochtino’s keeper coach, Tony Gymnez, are trying to encourage their students to get out of the tram lines, to think outside the box and think about Peter Schmechell to think about large, bouncy characters who spring, bouncy, bouncy characters, Manual neur Or Thibot cortoisHe is also progressing there.
Think about Mat freeze against Costa Rica In the quarter -finals. with Kieler NavasOne of the modern great people, in the second goal, may have appeared in terms of an open and shut that the penalty spot-kick competition will exclude USMNT from the competition. But it was not, because as Freez said, “Penalty is my point!” That night, his performance, being self-confident with chest and chin, is a symbol of what Pochtino is trying to achieve.
Then there is that separate version of aggression. There is not much saying, “To hurt one of us and we will hurt your 10,” but a pointed all-to-one-one-for-All Groel said that many people have accused this generation of shortage of players from us.
Another example from that quarterfinal: when Malik Tilman Remember his punishment, Costa Rica Juan Pablo Vargas Climbed his face, drowned on him and tried to incite him. The result was immediate. Without realizing what he had done, the squares were crowded, placed in his place, and any of his companions tried to join, he was less tribute.
“Solidarity and each other’s backs are important to us,” Reem said. “It has not always been like this. When that incident happened, we all recognized what was going on and we wanted to support Malik and also to tell our people: ‘Listen, we are not going around … It can be in the past, but we are together here and you are not going to threaten any of our people.”
None of this ignores the fact that Americans want to slant public (and media) skills, courageous and opponents. They want a smell, even an obscure smell, for a deep race in the next summer FIFA World Cup,
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Pochettino clearly speaks of ’embarrassing’ no-call on Mexico Handball
The manager of the USMNT Mauricio Pcheto spoke about the punishment not to be issued after the clear handball of George Sanches of Mexico in the box.
There is a lot to ask, but if you don’t ask, you don’t get.
Pocheto will not be forever in this job. There is a market for Argentina, and one can argue that after the end of the World Cup, America decreases in coaching.
Nevertheless, he has not been together with a group of players for this length because it was part of it ArgentinaWorld Cup playing squad in 2002. They have used that time at a good end. Now there is a great unity – the purpose and in mutual support.
What about Luna: “I thank Diego that I make it fun again. I have known her about six months, but I love her completely.”
At the end of the tournament, I specifically asked Pchethino if both of us were trying to win the trophy and to intensify a campaign significantly to intensify a campaign to intensify a campaign on how this group of men behave on the pitch and how aggressively competitive and loyal American football is known.
“Are you secretly with us for the last 40 days? You have described it completely,” he jokingly said.
Pochtino was confirmed in a long, practical reaction.
“As you said, this is a culture that is very proud of its nation, and we watched the show of 4 July of patriotism, but I think this game is still not properly understood in the deepest sense, how it originated. This is not ‘entertainment’ industry,” he said.
He stopped and carefully discovered for reference.
“If you play NFL or basketball or hockey in this country, you always play within the same culture, where the idea of entertainment is fundamental,” he said. “Teams or franchises play within the US-this is entertainment. And if the football was a USA-root game, played within this nation, for entertainment, then fine. But the problem is that you have to go to compete with those who play for your life, for a lot of things that are out of simple entertainment.
“We face the teams of players who cry when they stand to pay attention to their anthem love. I am not saying anything completely important about the patriotic of US player or fan, but if we are currently focused on, then ‘we are going to entertain the crowd … and if we win, I think we think we are doing.
“The legacy we can leave for the future is that the next time we qualify for a concacAF final in this country, the stadium is filled with 90% USMNT fans and only 10% rival supporters. That is what we want to transmit US football fans, this is the legacy that we want to leave.”
Not a bad goal.
