Klinsmann would not be my pick, but I'd be willing to give him a shot.
Don't trust US soccer fans views on Klinsmann, they have delusions of grandeur... which admittedly is not helped by JK.
Basically, Klinsmann promised exciting, European-style football and has completely failed to deliver. So whenever the US loses, he gets a ton of heat. OTOH, we were never going to beat Argentina. You guys have all seen Geoff Cameron play for Stoke. He is probably our best defender. Do you really think he is going to stop Lionel Messi? Or that an aging Clint Dempsey is going to be able to match Messi goal for goal on the other end?
People blame him for misusing Yedlin, but he hasn't done much with Tottenham either, and is likely on his way out. I mean, he's really fast. He's young, he looks like he's got some potential. He showed some good quality when he got that loan to Sunderland. He might end up being okay. But again, we're talking about him vs. Lionel freaking Messi.
Klinsmann is a victim of the high expectations he set. Supposedly we had/have lots of young superstar talent that just needs to be molded a forward-thinking manager who will break us out of our underdog-type play. But the reality is, we don't. We're talking about a domestic league where Bradley Wright-Phillips breaks all the scoring records. The quality is just not there.
When the US played Columbia, Klinsmann played the exact formation and lineup that everyone had been demanding he play for ages. And we still lost 2-0, not looking particularly impressive. It would help if Klinsmann were a little more honest and just said "Look, we kind of suck. What do you expect?" But instead he says stuff like player's attitudes aren't right and they get intimidated and whatnot and we can totally beat these guys. It would also help if the US weren't paying him ridiculous amounts of money.
Still, if you actually look at the results, the US did well in Copa America to get to the semifinals. We did well in the World Cup. We just didn't play with a whole ton of style, though we did for the most part play fundamentally sound. The US has not advanced on the world stage as much as people would like, but is that Klinsmann's fault? You aren't seeing a whole lot of Americans tearing it up in the PL or elsewhere in Europe, so why do people think that Klinsmann is the one who is holding the US back?
Don't trust US soccer fans views on Klinsmann, they have delusions of grandeur... which admittedly is not helped by JK.
Basically, Klinsmann promised exciting, European-style football and has completely failed to deliver. So whenever the US loses, he gets a ton of heat. OTOH, we were never going to beat Argentina. You guys have all seen Geoff Cameron play for Stoke. He is probably our best defender. Do you really think he is going to stop Lionel Messi? Or that an aging Clint Dempsey is going to be able to match Messi goal for goal on the other end?
People blame him for misusing Yedlin, but he hasn't done much with Tottenham either, and is likely on his way out. I mean, he's really fast. He's young, he looks like he's got some potential. He showed some good quality when he got that loan to Sunderland. He might end up being okay. But again, we're talking about him vs. Lionel freaking Messi.
Klinsmann is a victim of the high expectations he set. Supposedly we had/have lots of young superstar talent that just needs to be molded a forward-thinking manager who will break us out of our underdog-type play. But the reality is, we don't. We're talking about a domestic league where Bradley Wright-Phillips breaks all the scoring records. The quality is just not there.
When the US played Columbia, Klinsmann played the exact formation and lineup that everyone had been demanding he play for ages. And we still lost 2-0, not looking particularly impressive. It would help if Klinsmann were a little more honest and just said "Look, we kind of suck. What do you expect?" But instead he says stuff like player's attitudes aren't right and they get intimidated and whatnot and we can totally beat these guys. It would also help if the US weren't paying him ridiculous amounts of money.
Still, if you actually look at the results, the US did well in Copa America to get to the semifinals. We did well in the World Cup. We just didn't play with a whole ton of style, though we did for the most part play fundamentally sound. The US has not advanced on the world stage as much as people would like, but is that Klinsmann's fault? You aren't seeing a whole lot of Americans tearing it up in the PL or elsewhere in Europe, so why do people think that Klinsmann is the one who is holding the US back?
