Bruce Arena
Bruce Arena
Bruce Arena is a former professional soccer player, and coach of the Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer. Arena is the former coach of the United States men's national soccer team and a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Arena has had a long and distinguished coaching career, and is considered to be one of the most successful coaches in North American soccer history. He was head coach of the U.S. at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the...
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He's an extremely graceful athlete. He's a player with an excellent first touch and great vision. He has very good attacking qualities. But we've seen him in what I would call an amateur level.
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He's (Convey) a guy that's dangerous on that side of the field. He and Eddie Lewis created a number of opportunities on the left flanks.
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The first one was a big one because it was difficult for us to get quality chances. I'm sure this will give him confidence heading into qualifying.
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He's certainly capable. He's a guy who's good around the goal. ... He scored three goals. That's sometimes how you're graded as a striker, and if that's the case, he gets an A for today. All three goals were great.
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Canada is traditionally a very solid team, and this game will be a good test for our domestic players as we begin the critical process of building a roster for the 2006 World Cup. We are looking forward to playing in San Diego, a city with a rich soccer history. It should be an excellent event.
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I was not surprised. We expected them to play the way they did. They had two obviously outstanding goals in the second half.
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Looking at this pool of players and still being competitive, our objective is still to win.
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There's a strong likelihood he'll be at camp. He has shown a lot of progress and we need to take a look at him.
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I think you're always going to agonize over the last spots, and this time around it's no different.
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This gives me a last look at domestic players. It's going to help me with some of the decision-making that lies ahead.
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Having the opportunity to get a feel for the stadium and the environment here is very valuable.
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I think you saw that they were very unfit to play at this level.
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He's a talented kid who is very inexperienced and young so you can't expect too much at this point in time. He's 16 years old any way you look at it. You talk about patience, he clearly needs that. He needs to get a couple of good years under his belt with his club team where he fits in as a regular and sees a bunch of 90-minute games and plays well and deals with all of that. Right now, he has a long way to go.
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I think it is his time. It is a position of strength for us.