The USMNT has fired Gregg Berhalter, so today we go through his worst moments in charge to close our USMNT Gregg Berhalter coverage.
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Stephen A is an insecure racist
Whatttt they went to the fucking zoo 😂😂🤦♂️
Ggg rehiring. Our draw against whales. Our flop to the Netherlands. Losing to tnt and Jamaica. Never winning away in WCQ
I one hundred percent agree the icing on the cake was Greg showing the 1 to 1 score to players mid game. That was a blow needed to be clearly seen.
And I a great example of how bad it was getting and how to never coach as well. Just win. 😊
My top 10
-Arriola starting over weah
-Panama road lineup
-Pulling back against wales
-Anytime Roldan played
-Long playing in 2022
– Shaq Moore in wcup
-Reyna discussion in leadership conference
– outplayed Canada in 2-0’loss
– sneakers
– loss to T&T
Pray they don't hire Cherundelo.
My GGG "Not top 10" (first 2 are very broad, but encompass the depth of GGG's failure at evaluating talent:
1) Player selections in his 1st Cycle. Trapp – 20 caps, Lovitz – 13 caps, Roldan – 37 caps, Yuell – 16 caps, Lletget – 1K minutes in 2021, Acosta – 1K minutes in 2021, Long (post Achilles) – Played for USMNT before playing a single minute for his Club. Played him every game from June Until the WC started. Banished Brooks when he was a viable option at CB (Remember Ream wasn't part of the team much 1st cycle).
2) WC Squad – 4 RBs (Moore & Yedlin) over Pepi who almost single handedly saved GGG's job during WCQ (Honduras game). Playing Moore at RB before Scally during the WC. Starting Ferreira (his first minutes) against the Netherlands in Knock-Out round. Only added Ream to WC squad when Richards failed to recover from Injury before squad had to be named (Tim didn't play a minute in 2022 until WC started and played every minute @ the WC).
3) Telling Reyna "you're roll will be limited at the WC", before the tournament even started.
4) Speaking about "inside the locker-room" situations to anyone….even if it was suppose to be "off the record".
5) Adams at RB….just a dumb exercise and tactic that yielded nothing.
6) Love affair with the 4-3-3 formation, refusing to try or experiment with any other formation.
7) "Dominant performance" in Loss to Canada.
8) Favoritism of "MLS" players (Arriola, Lletget, Acosta, Long, Roldan, Bello, Lima, Zardes, Ferreira, Vines, Yueill) in first cycle over options abroad (CCV, EPB, Ream, McKenzie, Scally, LDLT) who were playing regularly in equal or better leagues.
9) Constant mention of comradery within the team and how everyone loves everyone else.
10) All the "Learning Experiences" from which he learned nothing. Always looking confused and disjointed. Making Subs too late to impact games.
I had never seen the bounce pass clip 😭😭😭😂😂😂
Hahaha the bounce pass is fucking ridiculous. Wow, I never saw this crap. Any other team would have fired him right then and there.
Viva Nicaragua 🇳🇮
bounce passes def the worst one
This clown is actually the real life Ted Lasso
they are cringe worthy but calling out geo at a leadership conference is the worst show how of a character he had and how bad a person he is by the way ggg wife decided to stay with him so she knew that a some point it could be made public and the that his wife did not say hey Greg stop or the Reyna's may make it public makes me question her as well
The bounce pass is symbolic of how he wants to be on the team as a player. It is not about respecting an authority figure. It’s about being one of the boys.
That bounce pass segment with Alexi Lalas is so embarrassing. Gregg the Egg has an ego on him
well… lallas is always wrong. also (and BC agrees with me) lallas is the worst defender usmnt ever fielded
Almost putting shaq more into the Uruguay game in the 60th for Scalley. How would that plan have played out
Just an FYI we got lucky to not lose to wales on that game they had 4 clear it to score in the last 10 minutes and one of those a long lob shot if it wasn’t for Acosta fouling we would of packed the bags early
not defending failhalter or anything but the problem lies with who's making the decisions of who to hire. (or re-hire, heh).
Worst Gregg moment for me was either that Copa America and friendlies prior to the tournament, 2nd leg vs Trinidad, Gio fallout, or that Pepi snub in the World Cup. Lots of terrible moments.
Not gonna lie, I kind of defended Gregg prior to the World Cup. But the World Cup snubs and Gio fallout started changing my view on Gregg. It would been one thing if he was a good coach but with the amount of moments like what I wrote sums up his time with the national team.
I get that y’all don’t like him and he wasn’t great at all… will y’all do a video about things he got right. A broken clock is right twice so idk.
Steve cherundolo plays the same system as Greg and is mls project. We need a coach with international experience and European experience as the minimum.
The worst moment of the Berhalter era was us crashing out of the Copa America.
If you still have doubts that Canada has passed the US in soccer, just remember that right now we are celebrating making the semifinals (equal to the US's best ever performance) in our very first tournament with a coach who had around a month to prepare, while the US is celebrating the firing of their worthless manager after five years of no progress, and just having gotten grouped vs Panama and Bolivia, in a tournament they hosted… we are not the same…
I understand neither is realistic, but what would you rather?
1) We get Klopp or
2) we join CONMEBOL
Let's say Nancy or Wagner are the coach for the second choice
Stephen A is a shill.
Omg the bounce pass thing 😂
Here is 2 more from me:
1. Never heard of leadership council in a football team. WTF? That has conflict of interest all over it
2. Berhalter continued punishing Reyna, playing him out of position, and taking him out early first chance he got.
1. The WCQ roster selection.
2. Never winning away in concacaf.
3. Sticking with MLS lifers too long.
4. Snubbing John Brooks.
5. Never having a good back up formation like a 3-4-3 or 3-5-2.
6. His handling/playing of Gio throughout his tenure.
7. Snubbing Pepi off the WC roster.
8. Most in game management decisions.
9. Coming back after Qatar.
10. Not resigning after getting grouped at Copa, forcing the federation to actually fire is greedy 🫏.
11. Knowing that this clown (ggg) has made millions of dollars, and I will never make that kind of money.
Is Raphael Wicky a candidate?
Top worst Gregg moment was when his assistant managed to win a nations league in a better fashion than he ever could.
I have no confidence in USSF to go out and get a competent coach. Not even a world class coach like some of the names thrown out there, but a competent one. When the USMNT failed to make the 2018 World Cup, We heard USSF say we are going to make big changes and get a great coach to get us back on track. They wasted 13months after that comment and ended up bringing in Berhalter. I have no faith in this organization. All they did was finally get themselves back to the point we were at in 2018. Only took them 6 years to do it.
you guys just dont understand the aerodynamics of bounce passes
I hate the entitlement of some of the people who have been "fans". They act like the fanbase shouldnt demand better from our federation. Just because we watch people on youtube instead of agenda driven anchors, theyll call you toxic. The most toxic thing we can do is continue to let USSF continue to operate like they have been
The funny thing about the bounce pass is that in basketball they actually do teach that receiving a bounce pass puts the player in a better posture to make their next move. Either a shot, pass, or dribble.
But how that becomes relevant to soccer and throw-ins, I'm not really sure. I don't recall a single time that GGG bounce passed to a USMNT player for them to immediately take a quick throw in. If anything, his weird bounce passes took him longer to execute than just tossing the ball to his players as quickly as possible if a real opportunity were there to take a quick throw-in. Most of the time his bounce passes were more off target than a simple throw or handoff to his players, and they probably actually slowed things down.
Really I chalk this up to GGG's unusual obsession with other sports while he should be focused on soccer and tactics relevant to his team's goals. All his Jordan/Nike gear and shoes demonstrate that he's got basketball on his mind. I'm sure his opinions around bounce passes come from that mindset.
I hated that berhalter always wore a t shirt. He never looked serious/professional on the sidelines
I'm more interested in why he got fired now. Most of us agree he sucked from day one, so why now? The coverage of the ownership of this team. When reporters, such as yourself, started pointing fingers at the real cause of the problem, aka Federation, they needed to react. If you all want to be good reporters don't let the big dogs rest. It's my opinion they will do their best to bring in another wgo bows to their will. Keep the focus on the ownership, make them own up the their narcissism. ❤
In reference to the bounce pass… As someone who played basketball, he could just chest pass the ball to around the players head to make throw ins faster instead of throwing it to the chest/stomach like he demonstrated 😂
The worst moment for me was just the general preparation and tactical execution for WC 2022. Whether it was excluding guys like Pepi/Tillman in favor of Morris/Roldan, including 4 RBs (of which he had Shaq Moore and Yedlin higher on his depth chart than Scally), actually using Aaron Long (let alone including him instead of a younger and better player like McKenzie, or having worked Brooks back into the fold), and above all the way he completely mismanaged Gio's role. The last one really gets me because I view his initial communication to Gio about having a "very limited" role as the event that started the cascade of what followed, and of course it was entirely misguided in terms of the benefits we've seen Gio add to the team only a short time afterward, and the fact that he was healthy and already back to meaningful minutes with Dortmund.
I put all this at the top because it's the general error that I believe had the most impact, since it relates to the most prominent event GGG had leadership over. In reality, I think the ultimate outcome of our WC 2022 would have been the same, in terms of our group position and how far we advanced, even with a better coach and tactics. We'd have probably still finished 2nd in our group, and ultimately lost to the Dutch in the Round of 16. However, I think the performances in group play would have been much more convincing. Probably a win versus Wales and a more comfortable win versus Iran. Plus a more competitive game versus the Dutch in the following round. Those things are meaningful when it comes to preparing a young team for the next big opportunities like Copa 2024 and WC 2026. Our shortcomings at WC 2022 really set the table for what we have seen since, and thank goodness we've finally started the process to hopefully move things in a better direction.
The zoo part where Pete says, “remember kids when we went to the zoo?” is ROFLMFAO. 😂😂😂😂😂
How about all the times we saw him on the sideline repeatedly calling out to players on the field, then get a disappointment look on his face because they didn't hear/acknowledge him.
Look at this quote from Crocker, taken from the ESPN article: "I just want to get the best coach possible that can help the team win, and whether they're from the U.S. or elsewhere, they've got to fit the profile, which is a serial winning coach, somebody that can continue to develop this potential group of players," he said. "Somebody that's got a huge interest and a passion for player development." He doesn’t understand the role of a national team coach. He’s not supposed to develop players, he is supposed to take the players we have and create a system to maximize their performance. A session with Greg Popovich would benefit these dumbasses. If the USA Basketball coach did what GGG did, they would be excoriated in the media.
Hilarious guys! I actually forgot how truly horrific this coach was…
I never saw or knew about the bounce pass clip, how embarrassing. That alone should’ve gotten GGG fired. Lalas and the other guy should’ve called GGG on it, instead of playing along and acting impressed. But they didn’t want to embarrass GGG
Call me crazy but didn't Yueill make the 2023 Gold Cup Roster after an injury forced someone to leave camp????
Crazy how everyone was stoked about this new generation but their peak was beating the worst generation of Mexican players a few times 😂😂😅
I'm not sure if people will remember this, kind of an obscure one, but the 2-0 loss to Canada in 2019, It was the first time Canada beat us in 34 years (breaking records lol). He subbed out Pulisic in the 60th minute for Paul Arriola while losing. This moment might be forgotten, but at the time it was the first sign for me that he wasn't the man for the job.
Which 5 players will coach Bombay use to make up the flying V?
Ever had a job interview go poorly because the employer didn't seem engaged or was wasting your time? You don't typically apply there again if you think the process wasn't fair before. That's where Jesse Marsch is at, and I don't blame him.
the gio reyna situation was when I knew he needed to go