I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.
As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.
Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level.
In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.
I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it.
If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.
Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.
The U.S. has not been big in new coaches - the U.S. is really behind Europe. It's the great passenger car and airplane that dominate American travel, and trains and buses have been much more secondary.
Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.