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Ale Moreno

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
309 total appearances

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ESPN FC
Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

When you say that you showed, basically, you showed up and found a group that lacked the basics, but we're not here to teach anything.

ESPN FC
Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

Well...

ESPN FC
Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

If you have a group that lacks the basics, for whatever reason, according to him, then isn't your job to make sure that this group knows the basics?

ESPN FC
Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

And isn't that part of teaching?

ESPN FC
Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

Isn't that part of what you're trying to do?

ESPN FC
Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

If you get to anywhere, in any walk of life, and you're now in a managerial position, and you evaluate the people that are working for you,

ESPN FC
Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

and you think that they have shortcomings in certain areas, isn't your job to make sure that you fill that gap and that you fill those shortcomings with education or with experience or whatever the case may be in whatever walk of life.

ESPN FC
Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

I'm not even talking about a national team, I'm talking about just in general.

ESPN FC
Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

Well, here they are in a managerial position, they evaluate the group and they say they lack the basics.

ESPN FC
Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

By definition, as a manager for the national team, it should be your job, it should be upon you and your staff to make sure that you hit on those basics so that when it's time to play, this team doesn't lack quote unquote the basics.

ESPN FC
Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

Well, I just don't believe that Jesus Perez, nor Mauricio Pochettino for that matter, really care about what any of these guys that you just mentioned actually think about any of this.

ESPN FC
Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

I don't believe that Jesus Perez, nor Mauricio Pochettino, nor his staff have any appreciation for whatever job was done before them.

ESPN FC
Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

Should they?

ESPN FC
Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

It's not their job to make Greg Berhalter or BJ Callahan or anybody look good.

ESPN FC
Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

What I would say is that it is your job to make sure that your team is ready to play.

ESPN FC
Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

And if your initial evaluation of this group or the surrounding environment of the national team, there are certain

ESPN FC
Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

things that we're missing, big things, basic things that we're missing, you have to make sure that those things are addressed.

ESPN FC
Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

And in his own very statement, he's like, well, we're not here to teach things, but you don't have what it takes, because that's essentially what he's saying.

ESPN FC
Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

We're not here to teach these things, but you don't have what it takes, so you just have to believe in what we say and take it because it is what we say, it is what we think, it is what we know, and you gotta learn from us.

ESPN FC
Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

I don't...