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“We got people who are populating our airwaves who have never f*cking played in a World Cup, and criticizing the players on the field for their performances and how they're never going to get to World Cups.”
Eric Wynalda defends Mauricio Pochettino and the USMNT from critics 🗣️
“We got a couple problems here, though,” Wynalda said while analyzing the USMNT’s recent losses to Belgium and Portugal.
“We got a bunch of people who are populating our airwaves who have never f*cking played in a World Cup, who are telling us how we need to be and criticizing the players on the field for their performances and how they're never going to get to World Cups because of this, that, and the other.”
“There's nothing worse than that for me than watching a complete fraud who puts it on his Wikipedia that he's played in World Cups and he hasn't, telling us that the team is playing poorly and or isn't going to cut it in a World Cup.”
“Man, I just don't take advice from people on how to get somewhere that they've never been. That’s always a bit of pretty good advice. You might want to think about that, but that's what we're enduring.”
“And then the aftermath of those kind of thoughts and that voice of negativity or just inept analysis, what we get is a spiraling out of control narrative that our team isn't good enough and our coach isn't competent.”
“We have other people that have gone so far to call our coach, Mauricio Pochettino, a fraud. I will not go there.”
“I'm smart enough to know that this guy does know what he's doing, and I just don't think enough of you understand what just happened.”
“This was the epitome of thinning the herd. This was an opportunity for our coach to finally, in front of some very, very talented countries, find out who can do it and who can’t and I think we did.”
“I think the people that know what they're talking about know what happened. And there are five or six guys who prove that they can't do it at this level.”
“And I could, you know, get into the weeds and I could embarrass those people, and I could mention their names. I don't need to do that. I think our coach is confident enough to know who those guys were.”
“You didn’t get to see our best team play against Belgium and Portugal. Can't you just for a second think that may have been by design?”
“In most World Cup cycles, the national team coach is still trying to figure out and piece this together. It's a puzzle.”
“Does that piece fit with this piece? No, it doesn't. And then you're just in a constant state of trying to put the puzzle together. And then some guys gel it.”
“It doesn't work in the sense that it has to be everything now, right? It's going to come later. And I can tell you without hesitation, that our guys are good enough to be able to perform. When the World Cup happens, something strange happens to you in a World Cup, it becomes more important.”
“But I would also argue that these games are far more difficult to play in than an actual World Cup. Pochettino is trying to figure out which of these guys can do it and which can't.”
“And I think the last two games, he's got a clear idea of which guys he thinks will be able to do it, and which ones can’t.”
“In the meantime, it would be appreciated if we can, as a fan base, stay optimistic.”
[via Unleashed with Eric Wynalda on GOLZ TV]
