USMNT - The Berhalter Era

efil4stnias said
none of the above is a license for either Reyna to contact US Soccer executives

And in doing so, they laid bare the fact that if THEY dont care for the current managers decision on Gio, they have no problem going above/around to get satisfaction

thats not cool.

Right. I dont think anyone, from USSF brass to Berhalter To mama and papa Reyna to Gio handled this properly. You have 4 factions who all handled this flat out wrong. You cant look at this and say, this person or that person was right. It was a s show from the opening bell of this drama.

But the 2 biggest problems both happened after the WC. Berhalter not drawing on the other 3 decades of potential leadership situations and going straight to recency with Gio (and believing it would be private) and Mama Reyna going scorched earth - which in a series of mistakes by everyone invovled, was the real coup de grace of the whole thing.

But my wife is watching me watch youtube videos of all this drama. Usually not interested. She asks me to give her the general idea, which took me forever. I rambled on for 15 minutes just doing a rough outline of all of this.

Her question after all of that was, why did the coach tell one of his best players he wasnt going to play much in the biggest event in soccer? All I could do was throw my hands up. I have no idea.

And that is still my biggest question that has no answer. Absolutely no answer. Everything else from there is reactionary. Gio didnt, from the accounts Ive read, sandbag training until after being told that.