USA Men's Soccer - Bruce Arena '73

Bruce Arena '73 returns as coach of the US Men's Soccer team. Arena was an All-America at Cornell in both soccer and lacrosse. [www.usatoday.com]

billhoward
Bruce Arena '73 returns as coach of the US Men's Soccer team. Arena was an All-America at Cornell in both soccer and lacrosse. [www.usatoday.com]

Let us hope for the sake of U.S. soccer that this is a thing to do through 2018, and then he will be put aside for someone more in tune with the modern game.

What on earth is "modern" soccer? Looks like the same ol' game to me. 22 guys mucking around the midfield until one guy in each game manages to put the ball into a goal the size of a boxcar. Unless 2 guys do it - then it's a racehorse scorefest.

TimV
What on earth is "modern" soccer? Looks like the same ol' game to me. 22 guys mucking around the midfield until one guy in each game manages to put the ball into a goal the size of a boxcar. Unless 2 guys do it - then it's a racehorse scorefest.

I mean that i want a coach who's going to bring us into the era that Jurgen promised us where we take the game to opponents. Bruce Arena is not that coach. Bruce Arena puts 10 guys in a 4-4-2 and tries to outlast the other team. Other teams in the world are beginning to match our athleticism so we need to get better technically.

TimV
What on earth is "modern" soccer? Looks like the same ol' game to me. 22 guys mucking around the midfield until one guy in each game manages to put the ball into a goal the size of a boxcar. Unless 2 guys do it - then it's a racehorse scorefest.

I saw a recent snark that went something like, "A Canadian soccer player recently set a new record for fastest goal just 35 seconds into a game, breaking the old record of 2 hours and 17 mintues...."