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Ale Moreno

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309 total appearances

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

Is that?

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

Yeah, so that's, is that?

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

So that's not realistic.

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

And that's not, and it shouldn't be the goal of the American player to, once they get to a certain level in MLS, say, you know what, it's actually better here because, you know, we don't want to make this situation too unique for our national team coach.

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

No, it should be, and our colleague now, but former US Men's National Team coach, Juergen Klinsmann, was, I think, at the forefront of coaches saying, go.

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

Go and experience different things.

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

Go and see the world from a different perspective.

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

Not only on the field, but off the field.

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

Go and challenge yourself.

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

Go and push yourself.

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

Because I think he, like many others, recognizes the importance that if you have players,

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

Over the world playing at the highest level possible all over the world when they come back to the national team They bring something different with them something different that they learn some a behavior that they learn in that club as a certain level of Competitiveness that they picked up at that club because they're pushing themselves at the highest level and in bringing that something different that that little

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

sort of essence that becomes now a part of who you are as a player, you bring that back to the national team, you now help the national team because you're bringing a different level of player.

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

That is what I think JΓΌrgen Klinsmann wanted out of the players just going out there and expressing themselves out somewhere in the world.

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

I don't know why you would talk against that or why you would make it sound as if it's a unique situation for you.

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

It is like that for you, as it is for Uruguay, as it is for Colombia, as it is for Venezuela, as it is for any country around the world other than the few that have the top leagues in the world

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

that are able to keep their players in-house.

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

Well, when Florian Wurz walks out the door and you're the next guy to come through the door, there is a level of expectation from a fan base that,

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

was looking at floor inverse and going, all right, well, I guess this is the guy that is gonna take that position, which I think it,

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

To be honest and fully transparent, I thought it was a wrong assessment to begin with.