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Old 06-18-2009, 12:20 PM   #151 (permalink)
phightin
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As I declared many times Bob Bradley is a sham. A coach of a national team that never even played at a professional level, his highest level was playing in college for princeton, is vastly unqualified to coach at the national level no matter how much success at the club level he has had.

Secondly, and more sadly though our players are not as a good as they were 10 years ago. We have a greater number of professional players now which isn't a bad thing but the overall quality of our players has dropped due to the developmental system here. The rugrats you talk about playing who will be good in 10-15 years our the guys out there right now. soccer has been far and away the most popular sport at the youth level for almost 20 years now, and it doesnt matter that our best athletes aren't involved, thats not the whole issue. I'll go into the details later, but the reason why there are no more Reynas, O'Briens, Armases etc is because of a broken system that I came up through.
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