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...
belong besides brian english nobody plays premier says stands
Besides Brian McBride (who plays for Fulham in the English Premier League), nobody actually stands out and says 'I belong here' yet.
bringing fantastic job national tony
Tony did a fantastic job bringing respectability to the national team.
defines hopefully rate
What defines where you can rate yourself is the World Cup. You have to show what you are about at the World Cup. Hopefully we will get to show what we can do.
We really didn't have much to look at in preparation for this match.
challenge incredible
This will be an incredible challenge for our players.
certain excitement guests hope nice playing
There is a certain excitement here. When we come back in June, we hope to not come back and be such nice guests especially when we're playing such important games.
card maybe second yellow
Maybe the first yellow card was a question. The second was merited, a little inexperience on Bobby's part.
camp finish head looked mistakes soccer touch
Now we have to head back to camp to touch up the mistakes we made today. Overall, we looked good. The soccer is there, we just need to finish all our chances.
anyone beginning purpose quickly
Obviously, this is a relief. The whole purpose at the beginning of qualifying is to quickly make the World Cup, and we did it before anyone else.
extremely games goal last main obviously round
Obviously our main goal has been accomplished. However, the last two games in this round are extremely important, not only from a competitive aspect, but also in evaluating players.
attacking capable create hit nice players
Look, they're attacking players so they need to create goal-scoring opportunities. Those are my expectations of attacking players and they're players who are capable of getting goals. It would be nice to see one hit the back of the net.
came credit good hard opponents played
Let's give our opponents credit. I think they played real hard and came with a good plan.
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My suggestion is that a better way to manage the game is just tell the player to take the jewelry off. That's hard to do when you have a young referee. Maybe a little more experience, maybe he'll disregard what the rule book says there and use maybe a little more common sense.
challenges games great judged perform team
On paper, I like this team better than the 2002 team. But as they say, you don't play games on paper. The challenges are great ... and this team will be judged by how they perform on the field.