10.14.15
ASN Morning Read: The Bad End to a Long Week
The United States men's national team loses to Costa Rica a couple days after its sound deconstruction at the hands of Mexico; the under-23 squad wins a third-place game and has a chance at Rio.
- Costa Rica Upends United States in New Jersey
#USMNT is winless in four straight home games vs CONCACAF teams for the second time in team history (5 straight from 1957-65).
— Paul Carr (@PCarrESPN) October 14, 2015 - Rate the players.
- If you were wondering, the Fabian Johnson-Jurgen Klinsmann dust-up is the thing that happened last week that interests me least: "Despite intimations from Jurgen Klinsmann that Fabian Johnson asked out of the USA's 3-2 loss to Mexico in extra time Saturday night without being injured, the player's club would beg to differ. Borussia Monchengladbach said Tuesday that Johnson is being treated for a thigh injury after he was jettisoned from U.S. camp by Klinsmann ahead of Tuesday night's friendly against Costa Rica."
As reported yesterday, teammates unhappy with Fabian Johnson for asking out of USA-Mexico, too. Also told issue was hammy, not thigh. #usmnt
— Doug McIntyre (@DougMacESPN) October 13, 2015 - Let's talk about winners:
U.S. Soccer announces the #USWNT’s 10-match victory tour will end Dec. 16 at New Orleans Superdome vs. China. Three prior matches TBD.
— Planet Fútbol (@si_soccer) October 13, 2015 - US U-23s happy to stay alive in Olympic qualifying despite setback vs. Honduras
- A rational take: "The rhetoric surrounding Klinsmann has become so smarmy and toxic that it does a disservice to actually thinking about what it means to have a successful program. I agree, Klinsmann has not achieved the competition goals that we should expect. But the level of scrutiny each and every one of his press conferences gets is laughable. I am about two months from finishing a PhD in literature, I can Jacques-Derrida-close-read the shit out of a text like it’s nobody’s business. But I can tell you, I have never seen language so over-analyzed as when a journalist tweets out a quote from a pre- or post-game Klinsmann press conference. It’s unreal."
- Oh well. There's always next year:
Mexico now CONCACAF Gold Cup, U-22, U-20 and U-17 champion. Clean sweep this year for El Tri. https://t.co/pXPzeJOwfY
— Tom Marshall (@mexicoworldcup) October 14, 2015
