Bob Bradley: Still our coach, or greeter at Wal-Mart?

KamaAina

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Sun Jun-27-10 06:17 PM
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Bob Bradley: Still our coach, or greeter at Wal-Mart?

What say you? On the positive side, we did qualify first in our region, and did win our group.

On the other hand, all that amounted to was another chance to fail against a country whose quality of life is ranked 95th out of 111 countries rated, below such civilized bastions as Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Dominican Republic. :sarcasm: There is simply no excuse for the global superpower not to take care of business against them.

Come to think of it, Wal-Mart greeter might not be the bottom of the barrel career-wise. Based on what I saw today, the profession that calls for the ultimate in incompetence is World Cup referee. :eyes:

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Condem

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Sun Jun-27-10 07:50 PM
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1. This is a damn good question, Kama, and deserves a reply.

The biggest thing that strikes me about soccer coaches is that it's worse than Pro football. Recycled coaching. Everyone coaching in the Cup has coached another nation. With the exception of a couple (Maradona an obvious exception). The African coaches are ALL recycled. Maybe we need some consistancy. Who better? I don't know.

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Sun Jun-27-10 09:24 PM
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2. Wow

You make this statement at my job, you'd find out how racist this bullshit post is. I have coworkers from Cameroon, Nigeria, and Senegal. Stop Making ignorant statemets. African countries love futbol in a way we do not. We were also ranked 14th in the world so losing to Ghana is no upset.

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KamaAina

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Sun Jun-27-10 09:29 PM
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3. Huh?

Edited on Sun Jun-27-10 09:50 PM by KamaAina

Most losing countries consider sacking their coach after crashing out of the Cup -- including Sven-Goran Ericsson of Cote D'Ivoire.

And I tried mightily to couch my disdain for the opponent (one-eleventh our size!) in non-racist terms, merely trying to demonstrate that, as the much larger and wealthier nation, we should be able to field a side that can beat them after eight freakin' years :grr: .

edit: I was just as horrified the day I went off to work with us down 0-2 to Slovenia -- a white nation, but even tinier. We need to be in a place where we can crush them, too!

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KamaAina

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Sun Jun-27-10 09:41 PM
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4. Okay. Let's suppose the NFL expanded internationally

and the Accra Shea Butter Kings or whatever had just burned your Redskins in OT at home in a divisional playoff game.

Would you be posting "Nice job, Shea Butter Kings! We'll get you next year." -- or would you be thinking thoughts as ugly as mine are right now??

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Upton

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Sun Jun-27-10 09:48 PM
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5. I don't get it..

you were claiming some other post was racist yesterday too. You're wrong on this TZ, we've been getting on all the opposition countries no matter what color their population predominately is. This is the sports forum, remember?

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HuckleB

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Mon Jun-28-10 08:37 PM
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7. It's a post without logic, but I'm not sure it's racist.

But what do I know?

:shrug:

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KamaAina

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Mon Jun-28-10 03:54 PM
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6. I hate to say "I told you so", but...

oh, hell, no I don't! :-)

http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/news/us-football-chief-to-discuss-coachs-future--fbintl_ap-wcup-us.html

U.S. Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati says the American team did not meet his expectations at the World Cup and he will likely meet with Bob Bradley after the tournament to discuss the coach�s future.

Bradley was hired in December 2006 and has a contract running through the end of the year. The Americans were eliminated last weekend in the second round with a 2-1 overtime loss to Ghana...

The missed opportunity is partly a chance to get to the quarters and the matchup with Uruguay, but it�s also a missed opportunity to stay in the American public�s eyes for another four, five, six days, maybe 10 days, when interest is at an all-time high,� Gulati said....

Before Bradley was hired, Gulati held talks with former Germany coach Juergen Klinsmann, who lives in California. Klinsmann withdrew after Major League Soccer refused to guarantee access to players for the CONCACAF Gold Cup and the Copa America in 2007.

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HuckleB

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Mon Jun-28-10 08:39 PM
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8. I think Klinsmann is waiting for the talent pool to be deep enough to justify taking it on...

That may occur for 2018 or beyond, but I'm not sure it will be there in 2014, especially if Brasil gets its act together and keeps the Cup there.

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