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ESPN FC
"antony robinson" Discussed on ESPN FC
"Absolutely. What about from the perspective sporting directors position, right? You're now in charge of this team. How much weight does what these players are saying? Like if we have a near unanimous pool of U.S. guys backing burr halter, as the new sporting director, do you have to bring them back? No. Absolutely not. So don't listen to the players. No, I mean, I don't, unless this is extremely an extremely toxic situation, excuse me. Within the locker room, you're never going to see players say, hey, don't do it. Get rid of them. That's never really the case, Seb. Do you know what I mean? So it shouldn't be the case because I think this is a little bit more than just not saying get rid of them. These are guys publicly backing a coach who's embroiled in a controversy, by the way. I don't think it's easy for these guys to take this stand. Well, it was easy enough where they took the stand, you know, the first opportunity they were asked about it, that's how easy it was for them to be what you're saying, the sporting director has a choice to make because regardless of how serious or not you thought the situation was or reading the report, you still think it is. They're going to be many sponsors. We're going to say, hey, that's not where we want to go with this. And the sporting director's job is also financial. So how do you deal with the program going forward and how do you handle the backlash that they make? Come with bringing Greg berhalter back. So it's not just what three players say. There's a lot of things that take into account here, but because it's only three players. And if I'm the sporting director, I would say, hey, I appreciate the feedback. I appreciate your input, but I'll take it from here. Yeah. Honestly, dude, I think as every day ticks on, I think there's a more real and real chance that Greg baral ends up as the U.S. men's national team. And it could be. I think one thing is the news cycle, right? The news cycle is going to kind of bury everything that happened, not just what happened between him and The Rain is, but the domestic violence issue as well. And if you think about it, herc, remember when the investigation was ongoing and I wasn't on air when the results of the investigation were released, we assumed that U.S. soccer was kind of keeping Greg berhalter close for legal reasons, right? But now the investigation is done and they're still keeping him alive as a candidate and they went as far herk in that investigation, which is an investigation into domestic violence to say that they were impressed with the guy who committed the act of domestic violence. The report indicated that U.S. soccer. Right? The report came away after the investigation with U.S. soccer though. They paid for it. And they released it, and they published it. What do you mean? They're doing, they're going way overboard to rehab Greg berhalter's image. Why else would you do that? Because obviously obviously it could cause problems. As you mentioned sponsors fans, whatever, why would you do that if you're not legitimately keeping him around? Hell of a coincidence if they go out and hire sport solitude, hire a sporting director, and that person happens to bring back the same coach as the process in 2018. But I'm just saying it wouldn't surprise me at this point. What I will say here is, like, who's going to make the call if he's no longer a candidate? Because that's not supposed to be their job. You know what I mean? If you can make the call, he's no longer a candidate, just go and pick the coach yourself. If that's the case. So I understand the frustration, but many, but it's a non issue at the moment until it is. Let's move on, herc. Is there something a little more light, something you know all about? No. Social media stardom and getting Concacaf. I guess you're a big fan of I show speed here. You'll have to tell me more about him later. Taking in some Premier League action and I guess at some point working his way through the Fulham team sheet and not exactly nailing Antony Robinson. Let's listen into I show speed. We got Tim raine. You know, him. 13. Yes, sir. Crap. We got Antonio Robin. Come on. What? Come on. Anthony Robinson. Yes. He's one of yours. Oh yes, he's American. Of course he is. Oh. You got Concacaf. Sorry, Jedi. Not quite on the level of fame that I show speed would need to nail that pronunciation. All right, so what do we got? He Argentina Panama. Leon Messi getting taken down. He's getting cocky calf here. Jeez. What kind of tackle is that? What are you doing? Who got the worst of it messy or the other Panamanian player? No, messy. Why is he even complaining? I heard a messy. Do what you do. You are not allowed to do that. How's that for goalkeeping? Did he stand still enough? Are you showing up respect? What are you gonna do there? He took out his cell phone and took a picture of him. Yeah, let's give diagon Madison love there. The Atlanta United star messy, no surprise there. Beautiful set piece. And Argentina celebrating their World Cup win with a victory over Panama. Club football returns April 1st in a classic. Bayern Munich with a new manager, by the way, against Bernstein Dortmund.
Men In Blazers
"antony robinson" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"All right. A little more on a former team meet us in the global America and the team that is burned, the Mexican national team, Guillermo ochoa memo choa. One of the more controversial figures recently in Mexican football. Born and bred American ista Aguilar from the youth academy. He recently came under fire in the news, I should say, for stating he wanted to play in his 6th World Cup Eric. Really quickly, it's not debatable. He's one of the best goalkeepers in the history of Mexican football. Every four years we hear his name. Like literally he's one of the best goalkeepers at the World Cup. Why hasn't he had more of a more success at the club level in Europe? Right, and the meme is that for international fans. He kind of disappears as he goes into a cocoon for three and a half years and then pops back up at the next World Cup, right? I would say that would show has had a brilliant career in Mexico, not just for the Mexican national team, but obviously for his club team, the only team that he's ever played for in Mexico, which is America's and that has his team, as we mentioned. The issue with him has always been something that has held back a ton of Mexican players when they try to make their move to Europe, which is the passport situation. Right. Especially when you're a goalkeeper, you have to really, really be a game changer for whatever team that you're going to to justify that non EU spot. And I think memo choa has slowly but surely been able to do that over the course of his career. Back in 2011, that's when he first made his move over to Europe. And he went to the French league with a hot show. He played in France for three years. He went to Spain for another three years. Then he went to Belgium for a couple of years. And I think the sort of the bad luck that's been associated with memo Cho is the fact that he's mostly played for bad teams. So in Mexico, there was a lot of people who still don't rate him because every single time that he's gone outside of the America league MX setup and gone over to Europe, he's had very, very difficult times keeping his teams afloat even in the French league in the Spanish league. Relegated three times. Yeah, relegated three times. He goes over to Belgium, which is a less competitive league. He has a better time there. And at that point, he gets his European passport, which facilitates him going to set AI right now at 37 years old and playing for another team that might be in city of bay by the time the season is over and suddenly Tana. He wants to play a 6th World Cup he's 37 years old right now. He would be in his 40s playing in a 6 World Cup. Something no player on this earth has done. You look historically, there are a handful of players that played in 5 world cups. Andres guardado memo Rafa Marquez being some of those players. It's great for these players for their resume, but Mexico as a whole as a program. How beneficial is it to have so many players with so many world cups? Well, isn't because it essentially means that you're not developing enough talent to make sure that those guys have the competition pushing below them to kind of lead them out of the Mexican national team. These are very high quality players, but there's no reason why. Rafa Marcus should be 39 years old and playing in his 5th World Cup for Mexico, especially at a position, a defensive position that requires a lot of finesse, a lot of speed and not just that mental agility that laugh I still had in spades by that point in time. For a goalkeeper, I think Mexico has been blessed with a lot of great talent over the last 20, 30 years. I mean, when we think about Mexican goalkeepers and we're not talking about Joel, we're talking about Jorge campos, right? But at this point in time, at this point in time, there's a little bit of a gap in talent when it comes to ranking memo choa and the other two three guys like Carlos acevedo at Santos and maybe at least malagon at America who might be nipping at his heels. So for Mexico to be looking at another World Cup where a guy is going to be out breaking a longevity record, I mean, it's a great story for us journalists who are trying to look at things to pick apart and talk about memo's going to be 41 rather by the time that next World Cup rolls around. So you wouldn't maybe expect him to start, but I think the troubling thing is, you're allowed to take three goalkeepers to any World Cup. I don't see three guys who are besting him at this point in time. And memo is 37. So there are two with this. So the first one is like what memo is thinking. Like, I'm not going anywhere. You want this job, take it from me. It's that simple. It's a competition and I see that, but there's also the other train of thought. And it's what the U.S. men's national team did. They told the likes of Tim Howard, Josie altidore, Clint Dempsey, Michael Bradley, the Jeff camerons of the world. Like, hey, thanks for coming. But this is a new generation. And they played with the new generation, Tyler Adams, Weston McKinney, the Zach stephans of the world, the Antony robinsons, the desk when they were coming up. And they took their lumps. They really took their lumps, but they allowed these kids to have that experience. And they were the second youngest team in the last World Cup, only because Tim remade the roster, if not they would have been the youngest team. Tim rim who was like 37 years old right now.