ESPN FC’s Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens discuss USMNT’s 2-0 win over Canada in the CONCACAF Nations League final. They then take a look at Folarin Balogun scoring his first goal for USMNT and credit Gio Reyna’s performance.
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it proves that players are above the coach. Especially this garbage coach that they just rehired. Makes no sense. Watch this guy turn this squad into another WWII. I hope he gets sacked again. The sooner the better.
Since when is it critically important that a player's parents are friendly with his manager…. or love their child's supervisor at any workplace? We all want that perfect ideal, everyone to love everyone, but in any endeavor, organization, any team, it's not a real world reasonable expectation. That's actually a major part of any manager's job- conflict resolution… to coalesce people with different backgrounds and personalities into a cohesive group to complete a common goal. Often-times that doesn't include friendship away from work. If everyone throughout the organization remains professional, stay in their lane, are immediately checked when they stray, it will be fine.
This was a great performance.. let's enjoy it while it lasts… once GGG takes over, that joy will be gone…
Canada has to refuse to play US at their home.. give them the finger and play in Toronto…
Callaghan in. Berhalter OUT!!!
Tell me you did not watch the Octogonal and the Friendlies vs Saudi Arabia and Japan without telling me you did not watch it.
Bruh I don’t even know if I want Greg to coach he better not mess this up we LOOKED INSANE OUT THERE
The p*** chant has been happening for decades. The goalie is called that because in Mexican spanish a common way of saying scoring a goal is “putting it in.” So people will say the goalie “let him put it in.” (Look up p*** if you don’t understand.)
The teams and leagues are in a tough situation because they don’t want to create a hostile environment for players/fans, but they also don’t want to politicize their team/league. If calling someone a p*** is so heinous (even if it’s obviously a joke), then maybe the law should be updated to reflect this sentiment. Meanwhile, the clubs/leagues can use video from games to pick out and permanently ban fans from coming to games if they engage in that behavior, and eventually it will go away. The constant public disavowals are pathetic, they represent a complete ineptitude to actually solve the problem.
The US is playing proper Football, getting Belhalter back is a mistake towards the 2026 WC🤦🏻
Who were the Mexican fans calling "putos"? Was it our players? Was it the Mexican players? Was it the American fans? Who were they referring to?
re: the USMNT coach "6 months wasted" talking point, I don't think that's actually what's happened on the ground. Balogun is a great upgrade, the management reorg conflict 3 years out from '26 is resolving… everything's looking positive. Copa America is GGG's test, you can cut him then if things are stale.
Why is Gab wearing Seattle Sounders gear? That's all I wanna know. I love it, just wanna know why.
Here's how you deal with it: you realise that a bunch of a**holes saying stupid stuff and being awful people isn't the end of the world, and you stop getting so offended by words which only leads to useless "solutions" that only cause more problems. And if those idiots actually get violent you ban them for life. The end
CANADA need new coach fast!! Salute from montreal
Everyone were saying that Canada were going to win. They forgot to take the USMNT’s depth into consideration.😂🤡😂
Good result, but Concacaf aside from USA and Canada, are kinda in a transitional period. Interesting to see how things shape up going into 2026.
The wins were very positive for the US. Berhalter back as manager is a clear step back however. It's beyond wasting 6 months of development when you already have 6 less months thanks to a late 2022 World Cup. It's that the US has always struggled with repeat coaches. Catastrophic for them, actually. Klinnsmann, Bradley, Arena… second term was always rougher. I didn't think Berhalter should not come back because of the Reyna parent issue, but because they had to aim better. When even your opposition managers can look and say: "I was surprised by that approach" after thrashing you 4-1 in a rd of 16 match, it's pretty obvious. There's a naivety there & IMHO, he'd do well to return to club management and the day-to-day and will be a far better manager from it.
Anyone believe these guys are interested in us soccer
“Clean house of the incestuous nature of the usmnt” is pretty rich when berhalter was hired by his brother. Like was that supposed to be a joke or something
We need the fbi to clean out ussf just like it did fifa. Ussf is corrupt and not serving Americans.