06-04-2016, 04:40 AM
What bugs me about the interview is its seeming honesty and candidness. That is, to an uninformed or casual observer, his remarks are interesting, sometimes brutal, but acute. It's a good posture.
On the other hand, to a close observer, Klinsmann is well... either spectacularly deluded, dumb or dishonest. Many of remarks don't fit reality. Specifically:
"What happened to the Bill Hamids...?"
ANSWER: he's one of the best goalkeepers in MLS. He basically singlehandedly keeps DC United respectable.
"Too many of the young players are stagnant," he says, while naming three players: Julian Green (who did indeed waste his time with Bayern Munich), Rubio Rubin and Emerson Hyndman.
It's in the latter two examples that are deceptive. Rubin is only sort of a second team player -- he was injured basically the entire year. Soccer teams, like baseball teams, often send players down to their second team to get their game legs back. Rubin played for the first team after regaining fitness.
Hyndman, on the other hand, played the first half of the year on the second team because the team was trying to pressure him into signing a new contract. Once they acceted that, he started playing and playing well.
Later in the interview he suggests Matt Miazga isn't playing enough. But Miazga did what Klinsmann begged players to do -- go abroad to challenge himself. The plan his new team hit upon was to have him sit and get acclimated. Again, not really an instance of stagnation.
The suggestion Klinsmann is making is that while he would really love to promote younger players but just can't do it. (In fact Klinsmann is infamous for calling up young players late, and then playing them out of position when he does. Hyndman "disappeared" in the Czech Republic game -- because he was stuck out on the wing, not his natural position. It'd be like complaining about Bryce Love's play at left tackle.)
The larger suggestion is that, poor him, the talent isn't there. Poppycock. I'd be making a post even longer, but any US fan with any memory, who saw the days of Robbie Findlay and Jonny Bornstein, knows that this team is far more talented on average than any previous team. There isn't an out and out star like a Landon Donovan but, you know, that's why you're a manager -- to figure out problems like this. That he persists in whining about external factors, and never once, to my knowledge, accepted personal responsibility, makes him more than a grating human being, more than another of a long line of hucksters and flim flam men American culture is sadly predisposed to being deceived by, it makes him an awful manager. I'd fire him yesterday if I could.
On the other hand, to a close observer, Klinsmann is well... either spectacularly deluded, dumb or dishonest. Many of remarks don't fit reality. Specifically:
"What happened to the Bill Hamids...?"
ANSWER: he's one of the best goalkeepers in MLS. He basically singlehandedly keeps DC United respectable.
"Too many of the young players are stagnant," he says, while naming three players: Julian Green (who did indeed waste his time with Bayern Munich), Rubio Rubin and Emerson Hyndman.
It's in the latter two examples that are deceptive. Rubin is only sort of a second team player -- he was injured basically the entire year. Soccer teams, like baseball teams, often send players down to their second team to get their game legs back. Rubin played for the first team after regaining fitness.
Hyndman, on the other hand, played the first half of the year on the second team because the team was trying to pressure him into signing a new contract. Once they acceted that, he started playing and playing well.
Later in the interview he suggests Matt Miazga isn't playing enough. But Miazga did what Klinsmann begged players to do -- go abroad to challenge himself. The plan his new team hit upon was to have him sit and get acclimated. Again, not really an instance of stagnation.
The suggestion Klinsmann is making is that while he would really love to promote younger players but just can't do it. (In fact Klinsmann is infamous for calling up young players late, and then playing them out of position when he does. Hyndman "disappeared" in the Czech Republic game -- because he was stuck out on the wing, not his natural position. It'd be like complaining about Bryce Love's play at left tackle.)
The larger suggestion is that, poor him, the talent isn't there. Poppycock. I'd be making a post even longer, but any US fan with any memory, who saw the days of Robbie Findlay and Jonny Bornstein, knows that this team is far more talented on average than any previous team. There isn't an out and out star like a Landon Donovan but, you know, that's why you're a manager -- to figure out problems like this. That he persists in whining about external factors, and never once, to my knowledge, accepted personal responsibility, makes him more than a grating human being, more than another of a long line of hucksters and flim flam men American culture is sadly predisposed to being deceived by, it makes him an awful manager. I'd fire him yesterday if I could.