Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?
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Hootsie! Right, okay. With three-time MLS Cup champion, Alejandro Moreno, ex-Venezuelan national team.
It's a good time that, well, it's a good thing that you made it. I did. That you were coming back from the Super Bowl, right?
I did, I just got here.
And you were hanging out with Bad Bunny. Benito, yes. Yeah, okay. Good thing that you made it, because otherwise it was going to be me hosting the show by myself. And let me tell you, well... I was going to bring it.
You were going to bring it? It wouldn't be by yourself because our good friend Derek Ray is going to join us, the Bundesliga expert. We're going to get some stock up, stock down on CONCACAF's best in the Bundesliga. As you mentioned, lots to get through. We have Mauricio Pochettino, Jesus Perez, the assistant coach of the U.S. men's national team, with some interesting comments, Ale. Let's talk a little about Raul Jimenez. But first, I'm sure you saw the Super Bowl. Of course I did. Your team win? My team did not participate. Your team did not participate. Did you at least like the halftime show? What are your thoughts on the halftime show, if you have any thoughts?
Maybe I'm the wrong demographic, wrong age demographic. Maybe I wasn't the target. I'm willing to admit that if I was not supposed to be the target, well, they achieved it.
They did not hit me.
I'm all for Latin music. You know, I got it in the hip.
I see the rhythm. I got a little something here and there.
But I'm more old school when it comes to this stuff. So more of, you know, Merengue, Juan Luis Guerra, his 440, Efe Salsa, Gilberto Santa Rosa. This guy didn't hit me the way I guess it should have.
Or that it hit some other people. The NFL was going for a much younger Democrat.
Oh, well. Bad Bunny.
Benito. I'll tell you what. He brought it. I was on the field at halftime for the performance. I started FaceTiming my wife and my daughter, Gianna. It was pretty cool. I don't know if you saw the memes afterwards. There's a lot of symbolism in the performance. My favorite was there was a child sleeping on three chairs. And if you know, you know. When you go to these Latin parties, it's, ah, estás cansado? You're tired? Sleep here type of deal. So a lot of cool little things in there.
What did USMNT assistant coach Jesús Pérez say about player basics?
Are you saying that you were an extra in the halftime show?
Were you one of the performers? You might have seen me in one of those tree get-ups.
I'm not saying... Were you or were you not wearing a straw hat? Listen, listen, I'm going to leave the context out of here. Just like a few people left context out of some comments that came from Marisa Pochettino and Jesus Perez of the U.S. Men's National. The assistant coach and the head coach had a few things to say about the state of the U.S. Men's National when they arrived. Jesus Perez says, we found that there was a lack of basics for whatever reason. They were in transition. We did assess things and implement a vision. We didn't go there to teach anything, to show them how to do things, just to convince the group of players and staff that we can be competitive. This is via the High Performance Podcast.
Wow. I don't even know where to start here. It's pretty strong, Ale. When you hear that, what do you think he's actually talking about?
Well, you know, there's a contradiction in the statement. Well, there is. There's many. 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. Well... 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? And isn't that part of teaching? Isn't that part of what you're trying to do? 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, 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.
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