[dfwgator]

Gulati, the head of the USSF, has expressed disappointment that the US was eliminated in the Round of 16.

That suggests that there will be a new US coach. The question is, will Gulati finally relent, and allow Klinsi to have the control that Klinsi would demand to coach Team USA.

[longjack]

As the post I wrote above indicates, it may not be enough to have a national coach like Klinsmann.

I was acquainted with a US national U level coach. He said that the difference in the speed in which the first touch is processed between his teams and foreign teams was incredible.

He had young sons and he would get little games going with my son and other neighborhood kids. He and I would play to maintain a structure in which a particular problem would need to be solved, in other worrds to stop them from kicking the ball as soon as they got it, etc.

There was no coaching, though. he wanted problems to be observed and solved. It was like he was forcing them to create an OODA loop while they were on the field.

[darkangel82]

3-0 now. Chile is done.