After yet another forgettable performance against Costa Rica,the patience for Klinsmann’s much-referenced ‘process’ to take root is starting to wear thinAfter nearly every game by the US national team, the Guardian runs an analysis on what we learned from them. Presumably the well paid coaching team headed by Jürgen Klinsmann performs a similar exercise – though at times since the World Cup it’s been tough to see those insights adding up into any sort of cumulative institutional knowledge. Instead we win line-up changes, or formation switches,reversions, and general emphasis on “the process” rather than the results. Each game feels like a fresh hot take on what is to be done – team history written as a sequence of blog posts.
It is only 15 months since the USA lost to Belgium in the World Cup, and but it feels like a lifetime. A month or so before that match the team were playing their penultimate World Cup warm up game against Turkey at Red Bull Arena,with Fabian Johnson, soon to be one of the team’s most potent weapons at the World Cup, and scoring a sublime goal to complete a perfect assist from Michael Bradley. Related: More pain for Jürgen Klinsmann as listless USA slump to another loss Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com