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Men In Blazers
"berhalter" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Roger on a dark and complex day for all who love the game of football in the United States. This afternoon, U.S. soccer released the independent report into the sports, most seismic family feud that salacious tabloid D frankly quite awful rift between the Boer halters and the rainers. That report was delivered hard to read a deep dive on one level that deep dive into a friendship, forged in youth, friendship towards itself in football, turned truly dark, vindictive, warped in middle aged, a rift that spewed itself out into the public eye after the World Cup as arena spread allegations of domestic abuse. Against men's national team coach Greg burr halter and the time when berhard had just gone on to commit what's from a coaching perspective, the cardinal sin of spilling locker room secrets at a leadership conference and happened to be about The Rain as son Gio. All of that came to a head this afternoon in this independent investigation released by the law firm of alston a bird took number three months, a deep dive into all these interconnected incidents. And I'm not going to lie, the report, the report's hard to read for so many reasons. Basically kiss, we come to football for joy for transcendence. We come to football to get away from the darkness of our reality and this report depicts in detail. The original fight, the abuse between the burr halters, Greg, then 18 in college, and is then girlfriend Rosalind, who is now become his wife. And it also goes deep on the interference of The Rain as. The report says, yes, they didn't commit blackmail they didn't commit extortion, but my lord, when you read this and I will include many of the quotes from the report, they were overreaching in the worst kind of human ways as I will describe, but the big headline from a footballing perspective at least is this, it comes from the statement, given the investigators conclusion that there is no legal impediment to employing him, but also remained a candidate to serve as head coach of the U.S. men's national team. And whether that will occur, let's discuss, but first a report, it depicts. Well, Gio at the World Cup, quote walking around and moping during the scrimmage and training until Greg berhard had to have conversations at the highest levels within U.S. soccer over whether to send him home. And you read this report, I read it with the hope at the core of understanding what set all of this off. What was the chicken and the egg? When did this burr halter reena friendship turn to darkness? I mean, these people have been best bloody friends from their youth endures. The boy's best friends. Best men. They married best Friends, roommates, two college players at UNT themselves. When did all of that fall apart for this? These friendships are said forged in in the love of the game. Did it start when Greg started to hold gia in arms length? Did it start when The Rain is reacted to that? Who was countering whom here? Who, who started it? Well, while the report located the route in that time, really, that geo began to emerge as an elite talent within U.S. soccer's use system. This is long before Greg berhalter, the investigation found quote mister arena began making complete to Ernie Stewart. Does the pictures about November 2019 during the FIFA under 17 World Cup and it's hard to read this. I'm going to be candid what I'm about to read you because we revere The Rain and 8. We revere his footballing exploits. But man, you read this report and it just, it paints him, and his wife, Danielle, as really helicopter parents meet Tiger dad and mom meets narcissistic, privileged over indulged just waking horror shoes. And I want to make one thing clear for a delve into some of this, really, the biggest and most damning takeaway here is quote investigator said, we were impressed with mister burr halter's candor and demeanor during the investigation. We were less impressed with The Rain as cooperation during the investigation and, well, Claudio rania was unwilling to participate in the investigation. Daniel arena had according to the report two brief phone calls. And a report then goes into serious detail about investigators attempts to interview Claudia. You know, they had no legal obligation to be interviewed, but to clear your name to make your case to state what you believe, well, Claudio dodged and ducked and his lawyers put up screens and ultimately did not speak. He may have had his reasons. He has the right not to be interviewed, but the fact that he did not did not make his case make his truth heard is going to tell many readers all they need to know about where that truth lies in this one. Claudio may have gone silent, but this report takes a hero and claim arena was a bona FIDE American football old school hero, a pioneer. If you saw him play, it was just exquisite. But here, the report makes him actually Claudia makes himself in his quote seem petty. Out of control, the tongue's just plain awful. Take this one in an email 2018, Claudio, complaining about a female referee. In a match geo played it. This is an email to U.S. soccer, and in all honest. Can we get real and have male refs through a game like this? It's embarrassing guys. What are we trying to prove? Like this deserves better attention. From Greg berhalter, on the rainers, when things don't go great for geo, The Rain is pivot and go into attack mode. Again, Greg berhalter, quote, on the rainers. There were a 150 people in the Friends and family program he's referring to U.S. soccer's friends and family program. At this year's World Cup, all were having a great time, except for 5 people who were absolutely miserable. Those 5 were cursing, acting horribly, it was
ESPN FC
"berhalter" Discussed on ESPN FC
"He himself owned up to it, right? Yep. And said, hey, yes, I acted in a very bad way, but I thought this was gonna be kept in house. It's unfortunate, et cetera. Everything else is now out of his control. The only thing he can is his play on the field. That's the only way he's going to make people forget about his parents about Greg berhalter, about this unfortunate situation. It's his only defense. Yeah. I hope he does it. I mean, he's got an opportunity with brucea Dortmund, but I think it has to happen in a national team shirt. Of course. Because this was a story that I'm talking national team, sorry. Yes. This was a story. And not just in a friendly, not just in Nations League, like in a big tournament. It's going to have to be the next big tournament herc is 2024. It's a while away. So every time he puts on the shirt and there's a friendly, it's a nation's league game. This is going to be what people talk about. And that's super unfortunate for geo, because when you look at everybody in this situation, outside of Greg berhalter's wife, who I think is the odds you said, well, it's the ultimate victim. Like the only person you can have sympathy for here is geo. And to your point, yes, I'm sure if we look back at his behavior at the World Cup, we can say, hey, this wasn't good. This wasn't good. This is not a good reflection of you. But when you look at how everybody else in this situation, behave, and I'm not just talking about his parents. I'm also talking about Greg berhalter at that conference. Speaking out in the way that they did, all of those people messed up worse than Georgia. And on top of that, you give Reina pass because he is not a pass, but an asterisk because he is only 20 years old, right? And because of what happened before the tournament, the fact that berhalter comes to him and says, hey, you're not going to have a big role. That's all context to his behavior. I think the reality is, though, here, this is who Gio renae is to a lot of people until at least the next big tournament. And that's super unfortunate. I'll go back to what I said about a snapshot, a snapshot of your life being flexible or indication to who you are. I don't believe that. I believe he is a young man that put himself in a difficult situation and didn't respond in the best way. And now has to live with that. But he's 20 years of age. If you're telling me he's going to be that player. Be that person for the rest of his life. I don't buy it. Yeah. No, let's hope not. All right. What about Greg berhalter? What do you think this information, the scandal leaves him? Do you think he continue can continue as the U.S. coach? I don't see how he can. Listen, I've said this many times. I said it's in Qatar. I said, when we came back on social media, I didn't feel Greg for a holder had done enough to merit the second opportunity as U.S. miss nationally head coach. For sporting reasons. I don't know how U.S. soccer, if you're the federation, you can go back to him. He admitted to domestic abuse. It's nothing light. It's not just oh, you only kicked her. No, it's domestic abuse in the eyes of everybody. He admitted to that. So if your U.S. soccer, what you want to do now or what they have to do and what they will do is remove themselves as far as possible from this situation, so not only are we talking about he's not coming back for the U.S. miss now stream job, I seriously have doubts about his ability to get another opportunity as a coach in the U.S. I'm talking about Major League Soccer. I'm talking about some other place, these employers will think twice. Totally. Yeah, domestic violence is such a topic that is in the headlines right now. That I think, you know,
ESPN FC
"berhalter" Discussed on ESPN FC
"Each other, not just a little bit, but they have like decades long relationships. When everybody knows everybody like that, there's a familiarity, which I think can lead to problems. One more point before we move on to the fallout here, and we're going to have Jeff Carlyle join us in just a little bit. To me, something that's very important is to look back at the hiring process because you were very critical of the hiring process. It was going on. It took 13 months. We didn't have a coach. It was a lot of wasted time, as you said. I think now we can look back at that hiring process and be like, wow, they missed something very important. And the federation in their statement, as we said there, say that they've learned of these allegations on December 11th, 2022. But in Greg berhalter's statement, he talks about telling his family about what happened back in 1991. His brother Jay berhalter was the CMO, the chief marketing officer of U.S. soccer when burr halter's hired. So there's an inconsistency there. Somebody in the federation would seemingly have known about this, yet the federation is claiming they didn't know about it in the hiring process. So I think when we talk about old boys networks and we say that and we don't really say, well, what's the impact of that? What's the fallout of that? One of the fallouts of that is that in a hiring process, important things like this can be missed. And I think that's pretty clearly the case here. U.S. soccer would never want to find this news out. No. But they definitely didn't want to find it out three and a half years into this man's coaching tenure. And as they're trying to renew for the remind me how many jobs were interviewed for that job, supposedly only three. Supposedly on the Greg berhalter was one. Let's get to the players because I think that at the end of the day is the most important thing. Where does this leave G arena, a young player with so much talent, but now with something on his resume hurt that I think is going to, for a lot of people, for a while, outshine that talent. So in the court of public opinion, there will be those who judge them unfairly or fairly however you deem that fit. They will judge G arena for his actions at the World Cup, but more so for the actions of the adults in the room. Yeah. His parents. And that is unfair. There are also those who are his teammates and part of that setup who may look at him a bit different. How would you look at him if he was your teammate? 'cause I'm sure you had teammates with involved parents. You played for the U.S. men's national team. No, never. Never? Bald parents? No. Michael Bradley's dad was the coach. I mean, this is a pretty involved parent. But as you're right. Got me right. No, you're absolutely right. But come on. You would look at this guy differently. A 100%. But you expect that if the coach is done. Okay. Okay, right. But to his credit, at least in front of us. Right. Not to blur those lines. You never. But when you're talking about the outside room, okay? Not working within U.S. soccer, I can't recall a situation where that came about. Right. Where the parents were lurking around. Now, let me go back to geo. That will all be long gone and forgotten. When the game starts, when his play dictates that, I don't think it's when the game starts. I think it's when he does something historic for the one international team. Every time he plays and his name comes up now, this is going to get mentioned until he does something that makes us forget. Do you think goals assists don't make you forget? That's the news cycle will make you forget and I will bring up the new cycle again later on in the show. Trust me. But they will make you forget. This is sports. Things happen all the time. Scandals happen all the time. And when do you forget? When do people move on? When you make them move on with your play, that will be the case for geo Reina. Now, say what you will about Georgia, he acted like a petulant child in the World Cup. I get that, but he owned up like a man to his mistakes. In front of everybody. And then when the coach outed him publicly, when the
ESPN Daily
"berhalter" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"No duh. When you reference the high institute and you reference that talk and although you said it wasn't about a player, it was more about the team and their response, you know, if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't have told that story. That's really the moment that set everything into motion. If he hadn't made those comments, we probably wouldn't be talking here today. This wouldn't have come to light. And so certainly there is an element of regret from him for allowing him to kind of get ahead of himself in air in the in-house laundry. And the other part that I think is important to understand too is that Rosalind berhalter's trauma from three decades ago was brought forward in a very public fashion by her, you know, I would say probably former best friend. Yes. And that's unfortunate, right? That should have never happened if this were to ever have been publicized. It should have come from her. It should have come from Rosalind berhalter, and it didn't. And one of the first things Greg talked about in that interview was that his, you know, his heart aches for his wife. The worst part of it for me is my heart aches for my wife. Because it was her story to tell if she chose to or not. And that's what it just really, really saddens me. But as for Greg berhalter himself, just to tie the loose ends of U.S. soccer here. Where does he stand as coach of this team? What happens to him there? Yeah, well, it'll be interesting to see how it plays out, right? Because I think what berhalter is going to have to do is he's going to have to wait for the conclusion of the external investigation into the 1991 incident to really have a confirmation of where he stands with U.S. soccer. I mean, I think the widely held expectation at this point is that he won't be retained, but Ernie Stewart did say last week that it was theoretically still possible for burr hall to be rehired. And so as we step back here and just sort of survey the landscape, the far smaller world that you have painted for us here. A world in which Claudio reyna and Greg berhalter, friends from childhood, grew families that were intertwined over decades that ultimately all exploded in this incredibly objectively ugly personal and deeply public feud. What are you left with here at the very end, Kyle? What's your takeaway from a dramatic saga? It's a good question. It's a tough question to answer too because there's so many legacies involved here. You know, Claudia ran out was one of the most beloved, you know, is one of the most beloved U.S. soccer players of all time. This will always be attached to him. People are not going to forget that this happened. There are not going to forget about it as it relates to Greg barter, and they're not going to forget about it as it relates to Gio reyna. So I think this is a story that we're going to hear a lot about for a long time. The fact that it's so bizarre is very U.S. soccer. If it's not one thing, it's the other with this with this federation, the equal pay, saga between the women's team and the men's team. In 2018, the U.S. failing to qualify for the World Cup out of Concacaf a region that it has, you know, what it feels like infinitely more resources than most of the other countries and was an inexcusable failure at the time. And as it's made, a lot of positive strides over the last couple decades, propelling forward as a kind of a global player in the sport. Now you're left with this story to kind of provide some kind of a reminder that this is not a well oiled machine. This is a still very small time at times organization that gets itself into situations that
ESPN FC
"berhalter" Discussed on ESPN FC
"Right, so on the call, Cindy parlo cone, the president JT Batson, the CEO and Ernie Stewart, the sporting director, Ernie Stewart, who was asked about it directly, said that Greg berhalter still under consideration for the national team manager role moving forward. That is, of course, pending the results of the investigation. Now the CEO, JT Batson was asked directly how he felt about it and he said he would be uncomfortable commenting on burr halter's candidacy until this investigation is complete. So clearly this investigation will impact what comes and what happens with Greg berhalter. In the meantime, as you see there on the screen, Anthony Hudson will take over on an interim basis. He is of course been an assistant under Greg berhalter. He's worked with the New Zealand national team as well. He'll take over for the January camp and the two friendlies that the U.S. has. He'll also be joined by another member of Greg berhalter, staff, and Mikey Varys, who is the very successful coach of the under 20 team. That will be the trio that at least in an interim basis will be leading the U.S. men's national team as this investigation unfolds because I really think guys until the investigation is complete. We won't have an answer on Greg berhalter. It's very clear from what we heard today. In this press conference in this media call and what we've heard in the reports over the last couple of weeks, Greg berhalter is a candidate to maintain his job as the national team manager and so until this investigation is cleared up, his Kennedy candidacy can't really be looked at with a clean slate. What does your gut say, said? I don't think there's any way that Greg berhalter can continue as the U.S. men's national team manager. I think there's no way that U.S. soccer can give him a second contract now. I understand that the headline here for a lot of people is blackmail. I want to make something very clear. Greg berhalter didn't use the word blackmail in his statement. U.S. soccer didn't use the word blackmail in their statement. It's very interesting that Greg berhalter chose to release this information because let's not forget this was not leaked by Danielle Reina. This was not leaked by U.S. soccer. This story was told by Greg berhalter via a statement on an unverified brand new Twitter account. Imagine the rush that Gregg berhalter must have been under to get his side of the story out if that's how he chose to tell this story. I don't believe that U.S. soccer can continue and they might not care what I think, but I think we've seen in the past. Sponsors carry a lot of weight when it comes to U.S. soccer decisions. And I can't imagine them seeing that the national team manager, whether the act was in 1991, I think is irrelevant here. Has only recently admitted to an act of domestic violence. I don't think sponsors will go for it, and I think that will mean that U.S. soccer. Whatever comes of this investigation will not be will not be moving on with Greg berhalter as the national team manager. They're just simply too much baggage now. There's just simply too much for U.S. soccer to kind of turn a blind eye and turn their back on information that is now available. That wasn't available in the past. And. I'm going to be very careful with this. If they felt strongly enough about the results in the World Cup and strongly I don't know about the future of the United States men's national team. Somehow this would be explained away. But I already think that there is a feeling and leaning in the direction tours, it's probably not the best idea to keep Greg berhalter and this only dose provides that final push and that you don't need this going forward. You don't need this conversation. You don't need the relationship of the origin and Greg berhalter to be at the center stage of every single call up. Because guess what? Jordan will be around for another decade. And he, if he continues to develop at the rate that we think he will, he's going to be the best player in this team for years to come. So if it is a race of who's going to outlast the arena or Gregory halter, where it is clear that you arena is going to be involved with the national team. Much further along the line than Greg berhalter will. And so if you're the U.S. soccer, I think you go with a clean start. And you start a clean process. You start a clean project and you're thinking about what's ahead and of course, the excitement of what's ahead is that 2026 World Cup, which you will be hosting. You can not. You can not take away from what this experience will be because you're dealing with accusations with drama with prime time soap opera. You don't need that. And even if we're thinking about four years ahead of time, I'm thinking in the whole process. I'm thinking about in the development of the reign. I'm thinking about the development of this U.S. national team of this young team that people get excited about. I think the team deserves a clean start. For me, for whoever, the new coach will be. Yes. How much does what's happening now affect what you do? With Georgia in the future. Well, I think at some point, during would have to have, if it hasn't happened already, a conversation with the parents. And this is a conversation that I thought was going the other way. I thought it was glad you arena and his wife Danielle Reiner having a conversation with you right and saying, hey, buddy. We got to show a little bit more maturity. I know he told you weren't going to be involved, but you still part of the team. You got to make yourself available. You still representing your country. This is the World Cup. This is not the word. This is another way to react. I apologize before and be ready to go for the next game. I can picture that that was a conversation that took place. I don't know that for certain. But I would hope that that would be the conversation. Now the conversation has to go on the other direction, in which geo has
ESPN FC
"berhalter" Discussed on ESPN FC
"Whose side you on? Gio reyna or Greg berhalter. Well, they're both in the wrong that's a reality. You can't ignore that Georgia was about to be sent home for his attitude. That it became so toxic within the group that he was confronted by multiple players. You can't ignore that. You can't act like a petulant child within a team setting. And expect things to go your way, expect to be playing. Now, he was confronted by Greg berhalter, he was asked to issue an apology, which he stated. I will, because I am in the wrong. Apologize to the group, and then stood there why certain members of that leadership council then told him his wrongs in front of the group, accepted it like a man, and was forgiven. You move on. He's 20 years old. If the way I acted, when I was 20 years old, is an indictment of who I am as a person a day, I'd be in trouble. So you learn from it. Where does this leave burr halter with the group movie? There we go. Greg Berger, his responsibility to the group. The sanctuary that is the locker room. You can't go to a symposium. You can't go to a summit, talk to a group of people about leadership and expect this to be off the record. Even though you can't be that naive. You can't be that would be awesome. No, no. You could have used a million examples of leadership and said summit. Your time in North Carolina, your time in the Columbus crew, your time as a player in the Bundesliga, your time is a player of the U.S. men's national team. Certain other elements of your coaching resume, even at this level, at the World Cup, but you don't use the one story. The one player that was on the tip of the tongue of everybody in the American media outlet. Everybody knew that something had happened. Everybody knew that something was going on. Even though he meant well, and I think he handled it well initially, because I feel he was trying to protect Gio rayna when he said he is a little tight. No, then it was tactical. It's on me. He's trying to protect Georgia there. Right. So this doesn't get out. But he lets it go out in the worst possible manner here. And that's an excusable. So I've heard you wax poetic about this for like 35 minutes on football America. You know, I'm always trying to get Craig Burley on our show. He's just always saying, no, no, no. So I want to get Craig's perspective on this, but also like, do you think this is something unique to American soccer or would this happen in other footballing nations? Because I love the drama. Finally, we have some drama after a World Cup. For us, a player was almost at home. That's pretty good news. Have you got a memory problem? Don't pay me enough. Been on it. Here it wasn't their news. But hey. It's not quite a Harry and Meghan, is it? I mean, it's not going to be a scandal for the royal family. But it's a drama by U.S. standards. Let's be honest, they love a drama over here because everything is dramatical. But a couple of things interested me, one of them was touched on, off the record, is not off the record. You got to be a bit cooler than that. Unless that is Greg berhalter, who was hoping it would leak out to say, well, let's just maybe a little bit off my shoulders and why we didn't beat the Dutch because I had some problems. And the other thing was, I thought it was notable and I've no dog in this race in terms of who I believe are who are doing as GREs saying, I was told before the World Cup started, my time would be limited. Now I always had these injuries. But I find that surprising a little bit that arguably you're most talented player and certainly potentially your most effective player, along with pulisic, it's been told before the competition that his team is going to be limited. Would that be without being the doldrums, have I been told that? Yeah, I would be. I would be. I was told I was left out of the 97 FA Cup Final. My face tripped me. All game after the game at the reception, the lot. So, yeah, I understand both sides of the coin, but I don't really see the need to bring up for bear Houston unless, of course. He was quite happy for this to trickle out. Yeah, Stevie, you were on the coaches side yesterday. The whole side. When you see this from Gio Rena, what Craig's talking about, that it was his point of view that he was told he'd be given limited minutes. Why would the coach say that to him? Well, he clearly hasn't told them before they get on the plane. It's clearly told them either the day of the probably the day before the fox game. But that would be my assumption from reading that. Because it's even worse if he's told them a week before they get together and he's still walking around like a big baby. That's even worse. The fact is he has told them before the wheels gear. Now that means that between the wheels game and the England game and then the last game you've got how long? Ten days? You got ten days there are 14 other players who are not going to get a lot of time. What's the team that starts going to do if the other 15 14 including Reina don't tools because they're not getting tame? This is not a small thing. They haven't got 14 other players like jira in. But it doesn't matter. Every single one of those players is as important as Gianna. They're not. Corset, what are you going to tell? You go into one of those guys who traveled between every day who gave every single thing who turned up, did what they were told, got behind everybody was a good soldier, a good citizen. So they don't count. But they do count, but you've gone talk to Jim's Madison England who never got any game time. You're going to talk to Ben white who allegedly, as far as part of the deal. Part of the deal Craig is not to go and not train properly. And then when you're finished training, go around. And that affects everybody. But it's not acceptable. Any level at all. I agree. I'm not totally agree. I can understand a certain amount of moping around. When you probably think you're the best player on that rotor, albeit with the injury problems. And he's telling you before the competition, your team's going to be limited. I'm saying my team's limited. Who are you picking? Who are you picking? So I think there is an element of that. And yeah, I understand everybody's a squad. There's an importance level, but unfortunately, certain players need to be sort of Molly caudal more than
ESPN FC
"berhalter" Discussed on ESPN FC
"Greg berhalter and more reporting from the athletic. Again, from paulton Orion on Sam stage school. And their article, which is actually, I think this is two days old now. States that one source close to multiple players said berhalter would quote face a major challenge in continuing to command respect from a group that is mostly playing in Europe. This is something nothing or everything as it pertains to Greg berhalter's potential future with the U.S. men's national team. I think it's everything. You need to have the group buy into the message. And if the majority of the group is already, I shouldn't say majority. It's one source of multiple players. You know what that sounds like to me? Agent. Okay. Great. Could be, do you think there's some truth to it? Sure, but there's also an agenda to it if it comes from an agent, which I don't know, but one source close to multiple players. But you don't know it's an agent. Who do you think it is? If it's a source, close to multiple players. Who was a report from? Paul and Sam, same guy. Sam. I don't think they just put it out. It was just some random agent. We're not saying there's just random agents. But what I will say here is not only do I trust a reporting. There's a logic to it. Just when you say majority, I think it's worth noting. That correct myself, not majority. But there's a logic to it, right? I've always told you this is a very young group. This is a very green group. What follows that when I say it? The manager. Who's the greenest the manager? And you saw versus the Netherlands. They didn't lose because the Netherlands were better athletes or were in better moment or even better players because maybe some of that's debatable. Like Greg brah just comments about Memphis depay, right? Right. You were out coached. Do you think there is some sentiment? There's some truth to that sentiment there. Where if there was a better coach, you can get more out of these players who are already brushing shoulders with some of the world's elite who are already in some of the best tactical stuff. And setups. I don't think they're looking at it as like, oh, we got out coaching against Netherlands. If it's the players based in Europe, a lot of them are being exposed to elite coaching there. If you're at a Chelsea if you were to invent this. Barcelona Milan, it's really that you're getting the best of the best there. What did I say? I thought you were talking about players and who they're playing with. You didn't specify. No, no, just in general. But that's what I'm trying to tell you. So you're being exposed to something different and then you come to the national team and you're saying, you know what? I just think it's a logical question. If this manager has the chops to deal with players that are already at a world level competing, also from the article, they say another source claims that some players felt burr halter's messaging was inconsistent as far as who he decided to call up and not call up. Really? Yeah. You mean like playing a high line and Tim ream doesn't fit that high line, but you call him Tim ream and then you don't play a high line. And listen to ring was great. He was great. But that was an excuse for John Brooks. Do players evaluate all managers like that. Even though you didn't play in Europe, when you were with the national team, were you like, oh, what's this guy coming in? What's that guy coming in? What thing for players to do? No, no, you don't question who comes in. But you do question the message of why they come in. Okay. So if Greg berhalter is sitting here saying his defenders need to be athletic, his defenders need to do something, need to play a certain way in a high line. And that is the reason why John Brooks didn't play. Okay, well, that goes across the board. And I think those are the inconsistencies there. Isn't the first time that players have expressed their frustrations with the message. You saw Christian Pulisic after the Canada game in Nashville expressed his frustration with the message or the overall tactical plan against Canada. There had been moments. Criticizing tactics is different than looking at who he's calling. You criticize tactics publicly. You're criticizing the coach. That's just a reality. All right, so we've hammered this enough. Let's have some fun. This wasn't fun. Well, not for everybody. Let's go down the hypothetical route. Let's say Greg, we're halter is going to get a job. Coaching in Europe. The U.S. men's national team is going to need a new head coach ahead of 2026. So in this thought exercise, we're going to approach it kind of like the college admissions process. And I don't remember much about this to me because it was a long time ago, yeah. But here's basically how it works when you think about your schools, right? You've got your safety schools. All right. Well, you're pretty sure you can get in. You've got your possible schools where you think you got a pretty good shot, but maybe you don't get in. And then you got your reach schools, your ivy leaguers. Your dream. Your dream school. All right, right? So let's use those filters, those categories to pick national team managers, let's start her with your reach manager for the U.S. men's national team for 2002. Oh, if I had a dream, we can dream. Give me a dinner dean, see that.
ESPN FC
"berhalter" Discussed on ESPN FC
"How does this kerfuffle affect Greg's perception among club teams? You were kind of talking about that before. What's a kerfuffle? It's like scrap. All right. Mix up. Okay. See. All right. Yeah. I do think Greg berhalter is going to have club offers. Yeah. I think here within the World Cup, neutrals outsiders, especially saw a group they liked that was well worked every time we spoke to somebody they talked about how they were. So it was well coaches what they're saying. That's something that for Greg berhalter is going to be a feather in his cap and moving forward he's going to have opportunities. But if you could see and if somebody dissects how kind of things have gone through his hands and he's kind of let things get bigger than they should have in some way, shape or form, this could be something where you have to keep an eye on if you're a club. Yeah. It's tough because I feel like, as you mentioned, the initial handling of the problem is solid, which is a club team. That's what you want to see. It's the handling of the communication after that. And it's what you often talk about, which is what you say to the press. And that's where berhalter gets in trouble. And Seth, this is a leadership symposium, right? You could have used a million examples from your time in North Carolina from your time in Sweden from your time playing in the Buddhist gift from your time in the national team as a player to whatever used the one hot button topic. That's why everybody's tongue. Yeah, that's why I think it was intentional. All right, let's move on with surprise surprise, herc. More on
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"berhalter" Discussed on ESPN FC
"Staff would contribute to it. Coach berhalter has always said that issues that arise with the team will stay quote in-house. So we can focus on team unity and progress. I love my team. I love representing my country and I'm focusing now on only on improving and growing as a soccer player and a person. I hope that going forward, each person involved in U.S. soccer, focuses only on what is in the best interest of the men's national team so we can enjoy great success at the World Cup in 2026. Take a breath. A lot to unpack there. Let's start with geo Renault's reported behavior hurt. What do you make of it? Okay. Let's focus only on geo Rena here. Okay. Joe Reina's behavior. It's unfortunate. I'm disappointed. I'm sure Gio arena can give a rip if I'm disappointed or not. Add a character, not it's not what you want to see. Of a player in any team setting. It's a team first. He broke that code. Don't care how old you are. You can't act like a petulant child. So no pass for his age. No pass for his age in his actions. The teen is the most sacred of things in competition. They run things. As a whole, nobody should be above it. Geo's actions should and did rub a lot of those players the wrong way. How would you have felt if you were in that locker room? Same way as many of those players upset with them. Now, we're age comes into play. Joe Reina was forgiven for it. I am glad that the group as a whole is mature enough to get there and that Gio rayna is mature enough to seek forgiveness and to get there. Uranus 20 years old. I am not the same person. You're not the same person. As when we were 20 years old. We've hopefully have gotten better and learned from our experiences. It just so happens that geo Rena and these experiences are put on blast for the world to see. They're on literally the biggest stage possible. I don't fault Gio rayna for his reaction. It is natural. I felt him for his actions. For his train of thought I don't fault. He will learn this. Right. The disappointment for being let down, so where does it cross the line? Because he lets it affect the trainings, because it affects his attitude, which affect his actions. You can't, for one second, give any less of yourself to the team and he let that consume him. And it was so evident that not only did the coach bring this up to him, but several players and if you think that per reports Aaron long and yelling were the only ones to bring this to his attention,
ESPN FC
"berhalter" Discussed on ESPN FC
"With Gio Reina at this World Cup? We're starting to get some of the details. Great burr halter, speaking at a leadership conference in New York on Tuesday was asked about handling difficult decisions around performance. Here's what he had to say. Quote, an example I can give you in the last World Cup we had a player that was clearly not meeting expectations on and off the field. Want to one of 26 players so it stood out as a staff. We sat together for hours, deliberating what we were going to do with this player. We were ready to book a plane ticket home. That's how extreme it was. And what it came down to was we're going to have one more conversation with him and part of the conversation was how we're going to behave from here on out. There aren't going to be any more infractions. For halter continued. But the other thing we said to him was, you're going to have to apologize to the group, but it's going to have to say why you're apologizing. It's going to have to go deeper than, quote, guys, I'm sorry. And I prepped the leadership group with this, I said. Okay, this guy's going to apologize to you as a group to the whole team. And what was fantastic in the whole thing is that after they apologized, they stood up one by one and said, listen, it hasn't been good enough. You haven't been meeting our expectations of a teammate, and we want to see change. They really took ownership of the process and from that day on there were no issues with this player. Worth noting, anything shared in this conference was supposed to be off the record. We've confirmed someone who was there that attendees were specifically told this and astronaut to record any of the speakers. It's also worth noting these words appeared in the events actual own publication. After this was released, our Jeff Carlyle reached out to Greg berhalter, who responded via text, quote, it's not really important who it was. The important thing is that the group had very clear standards, and they were prepared to communicate if the standards weren't being met. Sometimes that communication leads to positive change and a clear path forward. So at that point, it may not be exactly clear who the player was. Tom boger of MLS soccer dot com, the first to conform confirm on Twitter the player was indeed geo Rena. From there, an article from the athletic by Sam stageco and Paul tenorio filled in some more details, including that reyna showed a quote alarming lack of effort in training ahead of the U.S. opening match against Wales. So much so, it was unclear if he was protecting against an injury. Several veterans reportedly pulled him aside, including Deandre yedlin and Aaron long, the sources cited and it's also worth noting the sources requested anonymity. Those sources adding that the situation became quote untenable and was addressed multiple times before raina finally apologized. To the team. Okay, so we've got a few sides of the story, and then just about an hour
ESPN FC
"berhalter" Discussed on ESPN FC
"Think you've changed on a tie on a draw? You're saying the England game. Zero zero saying the England game is the peak kind of. That's what you're going to hang your hat on. So the rest of the world can view you differently. It's a fair point. I think you have to acknowledge what they viewed the USS before this World Cup, but a nation that had missed a lot. The same thing, the same thing they view you as now. Their discipline, their spirited. They see you the same way as they always seeing you, Seb. That's the reality. That's the reality. Okay, that's your reality. All right, Jeff, one last question for you. Let's get your opinion here. What do you think U.S. soccer should do? Should they bring Greg berhalter back for a next four years? By the pick one, I'd say no. And the reason for that is I'm not a big fan of second cycles. Now, listen, I get the numbers that are currently out there where there's 5 of 7 or 6 of 8 or whatever the number is of coaches in the quarterfinals are on their second cycle. Listen, all I know is how it's worked out for the U.S. and bob Bradley didn't make it through the second cycle. You're going to Klinsmann didn't make it through the second cycle. Bruce arena did, but that resulted in a group stage exit at the 2006 World Cup. So for whatever reason, it's proved to be a difficult obstacle to overcome for U.S. men's national team managers. And you know, I think there is something to the theory that the message gets stale and it's kind of hard to maintain that momentum through a second cycle. So that's why I would shy away from it. Am I going to be torn up an apoplectic if Greg barter gets hired again? No, I think, you know, he's going to bring a lot of good qualities to the job, like he did before. But I do think that, again, the second cycle, I mean, that just that's kind of a splinter in the mind, if you will. And that's something that I can't get past. So that's the reason why I would go that route. So before I get your thoughts here, Hercules, there were 17 teams that brought a second cycle coach to this World Cup. 5 of them did make the quarterfinals. One of them Senegal, who made round of 16. The big failure there is Roberto Martinez with Belgium. What do you think? What's your benchmark for 2026? Is it just the fourth game? No, I think it has to be more to home world has to do with a generation entering its prime. Generation is prime more and more players in the pool experience in Europe. Greg breber can not coach his team for another cycle. Gertrude hall did many good things, but Greg brehal
ESPN FC
"berhalter" Discussed on ESPN FC
"I don't know. I don't know if he's ready to go. Then an international coach, do you think it fits his stuff? What are his club titles? No, he's got no time. But he's got much more experience there, at least there's more data to evaluate. So he's got no club titles, but he's got more international experience. More data. I don't know how it attractive he'd be for other for other entities like a Bundesliga or an era de vizier or premiere, whatever you want to whatever the case may be. What I can tell you is pretty evident that Greg burr halter may be very keen on this. He bent over backwards during the World Cup qualifying process to a lot of these European clubs. When the sporting director of wilsberg spoke out against John Anthony Brooks, he took him for his work. When Gio reyna was heard at Dortmund and they didn't want him to play much, he did the same thing. When Thomas Tuchel was worried about Christian political participation with the U.S. miss Nash team, there goes Greg berhalter again, bendy over backwards for these clubs. He's obviously tried to maintain and nourish these relationships. For what? Well, if you're angling at a job, there it is. Okay, so what are the kind of things that was said at the very beginning of berhalter's tenure? Actually, Carlos Cordero was still in charge. He talked about the style that Greg berhalter would bring to this team. And I think beyond that, there was this idea that Greg berhalter and this young group of players could change the way that the world views American soccer. I want to get Jeff's opinion on that. I want to get hurt your opinion on that. But first of all, let's hear an exchange with Virgil van DIJK from his press conference earlier today with a journalist that might just kind of inform us on what the rest of the world thinks. The 5th game in the World Cup Netherlands he played with the strong team with the Argentina. What do you think about this game? Because before we play, the team is not strong enough. Yes.
ESPN FC
"berhalter" Discussed on ESPN FC
"But obviously he learned a ton in that experience and so I think the point is that Greg Bert knows what he's getting into and it's very much kind of on his bucket list to get back to Europe. So again, we'll see what jobs open up. We'll see how long he's willing to wait. And then he can take it from there. That assuming that he decides that he does not want to continue with the USSF. So there's some things in motion here. There's some moving pieces. And again, we'll just have to wait and see how it shakes up. What do you think? Is he ready for a European coaching gig hurk? Sure. It's a wide net. I don't know. I don't know if he's ready to go. Then an international coach, do you think it fits his stuff? What are his club titles? No, he's got no time. But he's got much more experience there, at least there's more data to evaluate. So he's got no club titles, but he's got more international experience. More data. I don't know how it attractive he'd be for other for other entities like a Bundesliga or an era de vizier or premiere, whatever you want to whatever the case may be. What I can tell you is pretty evident that Greg burr halter may be very keen on this. He bent over backwards during the World Cup qualifying process to a lot of these European clubs. When the sporting director of wilsberg spoke out against John Anthony Brooks, he took him for his work. When Gio reyna was heard at Dortmund and they didn't want him to play much, he did the same thing. When Thomas Tuchel was worried about Christian political participation with the U.S. miss Nash team, there goes Greg berhalter again, bendy over backwards for these clubs. He's obviously tried to maintain and nourish these relationships. For what? Well, if you're angling at a job, there it is. Okay, so what are the kind of things that was said at the very beginning of berhalter's tenure? Actually, Carlos Cordero was still in charge. He talked about the style that Greg berhalter would bring to this team. And I think beyond that, there was this idea that Greg berhalter and this young group of players could change the way that the world views American soccer. I want to get Jeff's opinion on that. I want to get hurt your opinion on that. But first of all, let's hear an exchange with Virgil van DIJK from his press conference earlier today with a journalist that might just kind of inform us on what the rest of the world thinks.
AP News Radio
Packed Black Friday sports schedule
"AP sports I'm Tom Miriam. On Black Friday, the NBA and NHL were as busy as the shopping malls. 14 NBA games and 13 on the ice were played the day after both leagues were off for Thanksgiving. The Celtics added to their league leading record by beating searching Sacramento as Jason Tatum scored 30 with help from the Boston bench. I think when we might have been down for the end of the half of ten, he knows because of those guys came in and just changed the momentum. The bucks kept pace by beating the Cavaliers thanks largely to a 35, ten third quarter in which Bobby port has played a key role. Felt good for us overall as a basketball team, because it felt like we was playing books, basketball, for a chance. Victories also for the Lakers heat suns, warriors, nuggets, grizzly sixers pacers, rockets, thunder hornets, and the trailblazers in overtime over the Knicks. NHL, the bruins became the first team to win its first 12 home games in the season, as they beat the hurricanes three to two in overtime on David pasternak's gold. Big win for us, obviously, and coming from behind, you know, after Thanksgiving, the game is never easy, so it's good with. The devil's after having their 13 game win streak snap bounced back with a three one win in Buffalo. Other winners, the capitals penguins islanders red wings, Maple Leafs Canadians kraken jets, senators kings and lightning, with Braden points scoring too early goals. I think both teams were into it right away. It was nice to get a couple goals for us early. Pretty good jump on the game. I thought it was a fun game. World Cup soccer, the United States finished in a scoreless tie with England as coach Greg berhalter's young team had the better scoring chances. Overall, pleased with the performance of the group, most importantly, the belief of the group, because that never wavered. The U.S. now must be to ran on Tuesday to advance to the knockout round. Plenty of college action on Black Friday, football winners included four ranked teams tulane, Florida state UCLA and Texas, and basketball top ranked North Carolina lost a wire with state. Tom Arian AP sports.
ESPN FC
"berhalter" Discussed on ESPN FC
"This a column that you think is more based on the us desire to lock him up for the future war is he actually now like a top five forward in this. Us pool a little bit. Because i haven't seen him in any of your top five a little of both can be. I mean let's let's be honest. I think gregg berhalter greg. Let's give greg a lot of credit here. Okay 'cause we love to you. Know point him out when they're not doing things well let's also call them out when they're doing things. Well gregg berhalter has gone about it the right way when it's come to these players these dual nationals. He's let them be. He's nurtured that relationship. He's trying to get the perspective. He's he's been very very transparent here. It is what it is. If you wanna be part we'd love to have you but at some point you also have to show not just the player but the public the fans the pundits like. Hey we're actively going for these. We want them to know they are valued and in some ways. This is a reward and this is when you play. Well you get rewarded with call ups you get rewarded with with the fame you get rewarded with all these things right well. This is one of them. If you're asking me he's in the top five right now. I mean he's eighteen years old. He's got nine goals on major league. Soccer put the ball in the back of the net regularly. Derryl deka right. Now is a guy who's you can say whatever you want about him being in the top five not necessarily doing that. Jesse start is in the mend josie outdoors nowhere near in the picture. This is a logical choice. It's not it's not unprecedented for a guy to get hot. And all of a sudden find himself unlike a world cup squad. I know a guy like that to like that. No it's true the. Us pool is not deep enough that you're going to ignore anybody who scoring goals anywhere the forward position certainly with how much we've talked about the desperate need for a number nine gregg berhalter had what i thought was very baller quote on this. Yeah it just seems like. I can see the meam already. The sunglasses come down over. Berhalter's is as you read this quote. We've been talking to ricardo for much longer than mexico had been involved for us. It's not about what mexico's doing. It's about what we're doing. It is bala bala. You know why it's follower. Don't worry about us. We're doing us you do. That's what it is and great because oftentimes the perception has been that. Mexico's put the cap. These kids just to have them right. Maybe not nurturing him the right women not letting them grow me not linda. Earn it gonzalez. Maybe jonathan going saturdays you can make a case for a lot of different players is fantastic talent but not really a star with the elliott galaxy. So you you know you can those as well. Who.
ESPN FC
"berhalter" Discussed on ESPN FC
"Dangerous. How is he not in the best. Twenty six hurt okay. So obviously gregg berhalter does not see him as a nine sees him as a wide player. Matthew hoppy is also in this limbo situation with this club. So this doesn't surprise me you you gotta let them sort that out and you can't just sign go somewhere and say hey by the way. I'm leaving if you're not an established player right now bundesliga too. I don't mind this look at the players who are in front of me. What do we have in front of matthew. Hoppy you're going to have christian pulisic gio raina. You're going to have who else do you have. Brendan errands and who's been absolutely on fire timmy. Way he had a great gold cup but versus gold cup opponents. These other players have been noonan at a higher level so with this club situation. I think it lends himself for. Maybe it's between him. And conrad. And if conrad establishing that clubs situation. Maybe greg hold a conversation with them. Fix your club situation. We'll go from there. Look you want to sing. George bellows praises. How does he get the call up. He doesn't surprise raise and doesn't get it on gold cup performance but you asked me. I said yeah that surprised me okay. What about george. Bello is surprise. Because he's there. Because of the position. Because i think what's really interesting. Is you basically look at him desk. You got two or three outside backs. Everybody else that they brought in on defense. And he brought ten defenders. He's got seven players who are all centrebacks or potentially centrebacks in back three does that tell us what formation wealthy formation. He's look he's looking at probably working at it three centreback formation and players who could potentially be part of that i was also surprised at james sands is on this list. Not the james sands is a bad player. But i didn't think he had a great gold cup. Wants the competition got stiffer. I thought he struggled even the all star game yesterday. You saw there's still some things in his game sometimes. Where maybe. He's a little over competent. Maybe he's not as great a defender as you think he's very good. Pass another back. Sometimes that that'll get you in trouble. I was surprised that maybe a chris richards for example wasn't on this list. Chris richards i. I know it's a club situation.
ESPN FC
"berhalter" Discussed on ESPN FC
"Was coming right around eleven. Thirty am eastern time which was right before production meeting so we had a good chance to react to this before we get to. What what we'll say snubs surprises fat. Let's leave that off for second housekeeping twenty-six players nine from league soccer. I don't know if that was a surprising number. Either smaller big to you. And then i think the other notice christian pulisic gregg berhalter told us. Today was day to day he still in quarantine but none of the three games ruled out today from greg for this. I think if you're if you're a us fan you got a lot of hope. That ballistic may indeed in some capacity be available for all three anything else from the roster jump out to you. Yeah the youth. How young it is. And when i mean by young isn't so much age but the experience six players have world cup qualifying experience. So that's something to keep an eye on. This is still a very young team. Don't look at. Tim ream still very very young team. Don't look kim bream. He says yeah. There's a few players that definitely Bring that average up there. You see the three goals ethan. Poor bath zach step in and matt turner a competition that i will be very interesting to see how it plays out her right. Because you've got three games in theory. You could even go as far to and i'm not just during the pot here. Give each one a star and say that each start earned you could honestly say that and it may honestly be wash. I don't as if you're thinking about the three and their performance in performance. Excuse me as of late that we the fans the pundits have gone to some. I think it's an open competition. I think you can make a case matt. Turner has an edge of these guys in. This sounds crazy to say that. But i think it's an open competition. If you're going off like hot hand we've seen more of late. And i think there's always going to be the question with zach steph. And has he played enough.
ExtraTime
"berhalter" Discussed on ExtraTime
"I i guess you could evaluate performance but i think you know giving them give them the golden gloves and basically like call a good like i think we know how played so what now for matt turner is this in and we said on the last show. Charlie is a time to double down. Do you think this is it. Is he the starter. Come september man. Oh man i one thing that i really dislike is that we kinda just skip over. Ethan horvath i mean. He came in as a substitute for zach. Stephan in that nation's league final saved a pen at another big safe. And i had to clean sheet against costa rica in the following game. We don't give him any credit he's he's also in the mix as a starter because he's he's proven any made a move because he needed to make the move to play so he's starting every week at nottingham force in putting in performances than is named would certainly be in the equation. I don't envy gregg berhalter that you have three phenomenal keepers succumb in all three are capable of winning you games and concha calf but you always go at the hot hand. In in every instance the player who's playing consistently the player playing the best. That's always how the national team has been for the most part. It's we want guys who are obviously the considered the best but are playing every week weaken and week out and doing well and matt turner is doing that. So i think in that instance after tonight's performance against the mexican eighteen he volts himself to number. One sorry i just 'cause we're we're gonna have to put this in a graphics. I just wanna make sure that languages. Yeah so what. Charlie davies is saying is the guy who plays for pep guardiola at manchester city in the united kingdom otherwise known as england primarily is not the starter over the guy who plays for the new england revolution matinee. That is correct unless we see so we see we see. Something unforeseen with manchester city and edison goes down injured or something. Zack stephanie. And he's playing bar-. Barring that situation matt turner should be starting. Come world cup qualifiers. Because he's going to be informed should we should we victory lap for doyle or should we let him do that when he gets back from vegas Just in mexico probably like talking the year off of some poor bartender being told everybody like three and a half years ago. I was like matt turner. Have you seen this underlying numbers. His goals expected goals. It's at the top of the league like nobody was talking about this. But i'm here to tell you that he can be the starter for the national team and bartenders probably. Yeah yeah shut up man. Here's some more cuban you if you are. We talked about this stephan and he said look. I'm going to have to make a decision. Does this put any urgency behind that decision. Knowing that there is a world cup and world cup qualifying. We're gonna have ourselves. I'm sorry that there are world cup ours to worse there's a spot earned and is a place in your country's.
ExtraTime
USMNT Announces Gold Cup Roster
"Right into a charlie. This is this is what we like to do. This is only like to think about. This is what we're looking forward to this summer after that. Big nations league victory from the us. Mnt the gold cup. We knew that this was not going to be the same roster. That went out competed oakley one that nation's league tournament gregg berhalter has been saying it for a long time. We're gonna have to separate groups. There might be a little bit of overlap and likely that overlap is gonna come from mls players because it is the summer and you've got transfer window open you've got guys going into preseason camps trying to earn their way like for instance. He said brian reynolds not here because joe's marino doesn't generally play younger players so they want brian reynolds to beat at roma from the jump with the new manager to make sure he has a chance to get into the team otherwise he's going to be working From behind a couple other names in that scenario where cameron carter vickers gotta figure his cup situation. Eric palmer brown to figure out his cup situation. And greg said admitted our centre-back cool is a little bit light. So here is the roster for those of you who haven't seen it goalkeepers matt turner the likely starter. Funny story there. We'll get to that shawn johnson. Brad gazon defenders george bellew reggie cannon shack more. That was a little bit of a surprise. Donovan pines another site. Surprise but again center back a little bit thin per berhalter miles robinson a starter says greg james sands sam vines and walker zimmerman the other presume starter at center back in the midfield coma. Kosta general kabuchiko stand up kansas city especially jet criminal. Don eric williamson. Who was my must have on this roster injection you'll end up top paul arriola gerald decay. Nicholas keeney matthew hoppy. Who's in for the first time. Jonathan lewis josse artists. Give me your initial reactions. You saw this. Twenty-three you're thinking about the summer you're thinking about the task at hand which is both to win a gold cup but also develop players to push into the first team to get to the world cup. What are you thinking right now on this thursday morning for me. I'm thinking there's not any anyone that i'm particularly surprised about. That's one too. I think this group is is has enough quality to win now if mexico brings. They're a team. That's going to be challenged in especially with mexico hungary to avenge that nation's league loss.
ExtraTime
Philadelphia Union unveil 2021 secondary jersey
"I gotta ask you about the big story of the day the philadelphia union out here blowing my socks off with the second kit with the lightning bolts with the sons of bins colors. might not be up your wheelhouse. But i i love this. These are the little offseason things that i see that. I'm god i can't wait to see the union where this kid. I love the fact that the union went out and didn't just say hey we'll ask a couple of people will do some surveys. What do you think this club represents. No they stuffed a bunch of people in a room. They made them part of the process and from that was birthed a magnificent kit that i am basically begging the union to send me right now. I didn't really realize i was doing that. But i am doing that. So philadelphia union. If you'd like to send me a kit. I wear large. I love what you've done. It's a beautiful beautiful thing yet so kit discussions. They're not my wheelhouse story. That mixed metaphors are up your wheelhouse but no it's gorgeous and it's distinct and that's what i really care about does. It doesn't look different out. There is it immediately identifiable when you turn on the tv. And you're watching this team And i liked the fact that the union have gone in that direction. My favorite kits around the league over the years have been the ones that stand out a bit and this certainly Certainly checks that box
The Lead
The First American To Play For Barcelona
"Two Weekends Ago Nineteen Year Old Sergio Desk became the first American to play for one of the world's biggest soccer clubs. The new. Number, two for Barcelona Savino desk off the bench here today. Today the FX Palton Oreo on desks rapid rise and why the young star has chosen to play for the US instead of his birth country of Holland. showed him their vision for what he was going to be in the future they believed in him and he hadn't seen anything from Holland until he broke into the first team that I act. So I think there is a sign of Sergio recognizing wind people believe in him in when people give him the support to be successful. From in the athletic, I'm under skelter and I'm Davidson, it's Friday October sixteen, and this is the lead. It felt like something great was happening. There is something about the emotion. For. The past because. that. This isn't a story. View the. It stays with you. So. Paul how would you describe the way that Sergio plays? Well, I would say he's definitely more of the modern fullback that we see in today's game. Is An attacking player first and foremost. DSP little slow to react to. That very quick very good one on one defender, but his strongest traits are pushing forward. With the ball crossings desk. Space he's not afraid to be creative. He's not afraid to try different things. Back so Yeah he he plays with the mindset of attacking player who is looking to create goals. And get a sense of the hype around surging your desk. How good is this dude expected to be? Yeah I mean I think there are a lot of hopes for what he can be you know Barcelona spending twenty, five, million euros to sign him that puts a a heavy amount of expectation on Sergio Desk I mean this is not a taking a flyer on a guy paying five million euros form and hoping he works out and develops know when that kind of money is being spent. The expectation is that you come in and you contribute right away. And in the case of Sergio that means producing assists, it means holding your own in the Champions League and I think there is a lot of belief that he can be that type of player I mean I think there's going to be a huge spotlight on that club this year because it could potentially be Messier's final season at Barcelona, and so the hope that club is that they can win Champions League maybe do something to convince messy to stay and that's what you're walking into. If you're Sergio Desk and Paul, what's your sense of Sergio personality what's he like he comes across as kind of a quiet kid? I believed in myself. So that's like the reason I get focused and I played really well and this you know he. Is Very Smart. He certainly is not afraid to Kinda give his analysis of his teams and where he fits in the and the last two minutes I just made a unbelievable mistake and that's What I learned from it. But. What's interesting is when you talk to other people about him, what's he like kind of away from the media spotlight were you probably get a better idea of his personality? It seems like he is. I guess the best way to put as maybe like an interesting dude, like he you know he kind of goes to the beat of his own drum. He's got a kind of a bright personality and we're starting to see little bits of that I think as he grows comfortable with the spotlight that's on him. Now, we'll you've been digging into Sergio rise to stardom including speaking with some of his former youth coaches in the Netherlands. Tell us a little about the path he's followed. Well, he was signed with his academy from a local club. At. Quite a young age and I think what's interesting is At I xe the expectation when you go to a club like that and you go into an academy like that is immediately, how is he gonNA fit in as a professional and I think there were some concerns about whether or not Sergio had the discipline to succeed. As a professional you saw that topic come up with a number of his youth coaches at I you. Was He going to take things seriously enough. Well, what were some of the things that he was doing that we're raising red flags among some of these youth coaches? Well, they vocalise some of them and they didn't they hinted at others. There's little things like Sergio not showing up to school. Where was his focus and and having to sit down and have talks about professionalism and you can interpret it however many ways you want is showing up the training on time is he going and doing all the individual work that needs to be done mainly they wanted him to understand that you know. Yes, football is fun. Yes. There is the enjoyment part of it right but. If, you're going to make it at a club like I asked at a certain point you have to start treating it like a job as well, and for as much as some coaches were giving him those red flags there were also coaches who were saying, no, this kid has it. He has something and what you what you need to interpret is, yes, his personality might be. A little different. He might not fit perfectly in the box that you want, but he wants to be successful. He wants to get better and those are the coaches that recognize that in him and worked to kind of harness it, and once that happened once there was a little bit of belief behind Sergio Dust that self-motivation has has led him to a really quick sent from. The U Twenty World Cup into access first team, and then a year later into the senior national team for the US and onto Barcelona. So break this down for us. Paul Sergio grew up in the Netherlands. But he's been playing with US national teams. How exactly has that worked? So Sergio comes from a military US military family his father was a soldier who was stationed overseas. As Mother's Dutch and so he was born in Holland and and was raised there and even the Dutch national team he never got an invite to the youth national teams in Holland every time before the less round, the real real influence I didn't make you know and. Then, I was like. And he was discovered by the US soccer on accident, a US youth national team coach Dave Vandenberg, a former player, and he reached out to his club actually about another player. Another American at I ax to check in and he said as as you tend to do in scouting or journalism. Hey are there any other players I should be aware of and to coach that the actually we have another player here with American passport is name, Mr Gino, desk, and then My Dad told me like you also have American best and people saying to my dad so he can also play for the American. So when they brought through genius destined to camp, they were watching very closely not just his soccer ability but how would he mesh with the group and they said it took just one training session to see the quality that Sergio desk had. But what they were really happy with was how quickly he bonded with the Group of players and they felt like he really gained a lot from the group in connecting to his American. Identity I felt home over there a little bit because they I mean in the national team because they helped me all the time and they give me chances. This. That's the main thing I guess I would say also I think it's worth noting that the connection between us soccer at the time general manager now technical director Ernie Stewart and Sergio Desks Ernie Stewart likes or. Has a father who is in the military a Dutch mother grew up in Holland and when the US was trying to finalize Gino desks international recruitment, Ernie Stewart and Gregg Berhalter flew to Holland sat with Sergio and his father had a meal watched her play Champions League and spoke about their vision and I think it probably helped Sergio desk to see somebody who grew up very similar to him very similar background who played in multiple world cups more than one hundred caps for the US national team and Through seeing Ernie Stewart's accomplishments saw what he could accomplish with the US i. felt like my feelings were telling me like. My heart told me US wants the best option for you. It's not like. That I don't like the Netherlands. But yeah. In life you have to make decisions on. It's easy. You know. Also, we should note that that loyalty that, US, national team showed him, and that belief in the positive reinforcement he was getting with the US and being to Seventeen World Cup team u twenty. World Cup team led him to choose the United States senior national team overhaul, and which was recruiting and Windsor Genius talked about that decision. He talked about the fact that he had been a part of the teams plan for a long time. They had showed him their vision for what he was going to be in the future they believed in him and he hadn't seen anything from Holland until he broke into the first team and. So I think. There is again a sign of Sergio recognizing when people believe in him and when people give him the support to be successful.
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