Dan Gaffney
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🚨 Igor Tudor: “I am very confident about us not getting relegated”. ✋🏼
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A massive March awaits.
Mauricio Pochettino has selected his 27-man roster for upcoming matches against Belgium and Portugal!
#NeverChaseReality | @ATT
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@brfootball No Wright but assume he does not need to see him. Roldan is a joke.. take Musah or Luca over him.. also take only 3 keepers on WC squad. Take that extra mid or defender! 😂
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Mauricio Pochettino drops his roster ahead of the USMNT’s final matches before the World Cup squad selection 🇺🇸
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@RamosTab @golz_tv Agree, Also, it’s tough at the youth level in suburbia to develop with three sessions a week. We were fortunate to grow up where players played every day. No coaches or trainers just small sided pick up. Reinforce the value of 2 touch moving the ball fast sometimes, but let play!
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USMNT legend Tab Ramos has called out coaching in American youth soccer 🗣️
He believes due to various circumstances, coaches are making things too complicated for young players— which ultimately harms them instead of helping them develop.
“I was able to coach youth soccer outside of the national teams for a period of about 10 years,” Tab began.
“Unfortunately nowadays, the game has gotten so complicated, the pyramid of soccer in this country has gotten so complicated that it's very difficult for coaches.”
“By the way, it's a really big effort to get your C license, your B license, and your A license. It's an effort. It takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of money. And so now these coaches are going to go back to a club, you know, after spending all this money on their coaching education, those coaches have to get paid.”
“And in order to get paid, you have to sort of not only teach the players, but you have to kind of put on a show of all of the things that you learn.”
“So now I get to the complicated area. Because now what if you hired me in California? Here I am. I'm the former U.S. Soccer technical director and under-20 national team coach for four World Cups, and I have my pro license, and you bring me in and I take your players, because you just hired me to coach your team, because I'm this incredibly knowledgeable guy. And I come in and I just do small sided games with your players.”
“The parents of the kids on your team are gonna be sitting around and going, ‘Wait, why are we paying for this?’ But this is what happens.”
“See, I would have enough confidence to go there and do that. But the problem is that every coach in the country has to respond to a technical director.”
“And because of that, they have to put on this very, you know, difficult training session that's in sequence from your activation, to your small five v two, to your small sided possession, to then the body of your work, to then the tactical to then the big game, right? You got to go through the whole thing.”
“They have to do that. And the reason they have to do that is because their technical director is under pressure.”
“Because for the technical director to have his club in this league, the ECNL, or whatever, you need to have all of these standards.”
“And because of those standards, now the technical director is forced to hire someone who can do all these things.”
“Well, at the end of the day, there's all these standards and all these things going on. And who's not benefiting is the player, because the player would benefit more from things being simple, right?”
“And of course, it's only my opinion, but I think I've gotten enough experience. Forget the playing side. I've gotten enough experience on the coaching side at all levels, from youth national teams to coaching in MLS at Houston Dynamo to say, ‘Okay, let's put the brakes on this. Our training sessions are getting too complicated. How about let's go back to the beginning, right?’”
“That's what matters. This is how players learn the most. And of course, every once in a while you have to have your tactical sessions, and your exercises, where you have the certain patterns to goal, and like I get all of that.”
“Of course, we all know that stuff. But the simpler we make it, the more we put players in game like situations and one v one, the better.”
[via Sports Recruiting USA]
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@FabrizioRomano It looked like he did not watch club WC final… absolutely terrible game management from this guy…. Cheerleading is not truly coaching and that’s what this guy is 😂. It’s classic to say we have to get better and not own any of his poor tactics and decisions! 😂 #OwnersPuppet
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🚨💙 Liam Rosenior: “My idea is to always dominate. Every game is to build a team that is fearless, no matter who they play”.
“We will be pressing PSG and playing to score as many goals as possible”.
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@CFC_Carneyy Disagree… no reason to go in like that at that point in the game. From behind the Ref easily could be fooled by the dive. VAR then should have suggested the Ref look at the monitor. VAR two big screw ups in this game.. 😂 Love Caicedo… but he dives in even when on a yellow😂
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Chelsea fans blaming Caicedo are missing the point. That wasn’t a foul.
The refs being consistently against us is what needs to be addressed.
.@CFC_Carneyy
No hesitation to award a penalty for Caicedo vs Leeds, but a far clearer challenge gets ignored by the same ref and VAR against United. Double standards.
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The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
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Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come. This is one of them.
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Sorry but I can't carry on with #SO I can't pull up my lists or usernames of people I follow are not showing. just accounts I don't follow. I'm manually typing in each name but it's not giving me the accounts I want to shputout I'm sorry but I think my X is broken
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Phil Aaron 🗣️“Chelsea didn’t have the best game yesterday, but the most important thing is that they won, kept a clean sheet, and took a solid three points. And honestly, no fan will complain if the team keeps picking up points this way.
The only time concern should really creep in is if these kinds of performances continue over a long period, because luck won’t always be on their side. That said, this is still early days under Liam Rosenior. Some key players, like Cole Palmer and Reece James, didn’t even train properly going into the game, so context matters.
All things considered, this was a massive three points. It builds confidence and sets Chelsea up perfectly to go and take a compulsory three points against Pacfos on Wednesday.”
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@Hsports_HD Did he improve his 1st touch or just lift weights? 😂 Dude has speed but horrible ball skills and field awareness… sell him…. cut the losses!
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BREAKING: Mykhailo Mudryk has served his suspension and will return to Chelsea training latest this week.
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@golz_tv Poch’s Zimmerman 😂 Why take him when there’s better talent… 😂
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Landon Donovan and Tim Howard believe Cristian Roldán will be at the 2026 World Cup with the USMNT 👀
“All right, I’m gonna say it. He’s on the team,” Howard said.
“I just think the bulk of your players on the roster are going to come from the midfield.”
“He’s shown enough in games that he belongs there and then I just think his intangibles. I think his grit, his leadership, his experience.”
“You know, how do you infuse experience into a young team? Well, you do it in this regard, right? Where you bring in Tim Ream, you bring Cristian Roldán.”
“So, I think he's in for those reasons.”
Donovan agrees with Howard’s take and adds his own thoughts.
“I’ll tell you others reasons why I think he's in,” Donovan said.
“Pochettino on October, I want to quote this, said, ‘Cristian is a good example of how you need to be involved and defend and fight for your place. You need to arrive and show your personality and your character and then be available always. And if you play, you behave the same way as if you don't play.’”
“And I've said this multiple times, there'll be one or two or three guys who make this team because they're good humans, good teammates.”
“Yes, they can play if needed, but they bring the whole group up and make the whole thing better.”
“And if he's saying this about him publicly, this is not like he said it to you and me, that means he trusts that he can say it and that Cristian's not going to get carried away with it and he believes in him.”
“He also said Cristian is an example of how if you want to build your perfect player, he has a little bit of everything.”
“So, I think he's on the team.”
Roldán went two years without a call-up, but got a surprising late call-up in September.
He’s played all six USMNT games since then.
[via Unfiltered Soccer podcast]
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The leading candidate for the Chelsea head coach role.
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Merry Christmas, everybody. I hope you all have a fantastic day tomorrow and get really spoiled and all the best for 2026 🎉🥂🎁🎄
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