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...
basically final good italy last opportunity players somewhat venue
Some of the players are on the fence, so to speak, and have their last opportunity to show - basically the European-based players. For our players it's also very good for them to be in a venue where they also get to play Italy and feel somewhat comfortable in this venue before we actually come back for our final preparations.
basically fitter minutes team
We basically choreographed this game. The team that's the fitter team is our team. Over 90 minutes it was going to be obvious. After 35 minutes you could see they were basically done.
basically brian couple decent game goal good half second
The second goal by Ching right at the end of the half basically put the game away. I think Brian did well. He established a couple of decent goal-scoring opportunities. Overall, it was a good performance.
basically closely confident last learned lessons time
There were lessons learned from the last time. We've really closely scrutinized the players. This time around we basically have a roster which we're very confident will be pretty fit.
basically challenge deal everybody known lesser particular rather written
I'd much rather have this challenge than having to deal with lesser known countries. The challenge we have in particular ... everybody has basically written us off.
couple form games injury late patient played since starting
I think we need to be patient with Eddie. He's just starting to come back. He's only played a couple of games since his injury in late May, so he's not completely in form at the moment.
anyone cup decides follows knows obviously stage team
I think anyone who follows the U.S. team knows we're just getting better and better. Obviously the World Cup will tell. That will be the stage where the world decides where we are.
lack respect
I think there is a lack of respect for our soccer.
belong convince opportunity players strong
I think there's some disappointment in some players because it was an opportunity for them to try to convince me that they belong on our roster for the World Cup. Most did not have a strong argument; some did.
lead player
Landon is an experienced player. He's a player we will look to not only lead us but to be important in our attack.
bottles crowd enthusiasm saw
I saw a little enthusiasm from the crowd as bottles were flying.
disrespect italy later obvious performance point replay sat shook stands time
I sat in the stands in Italy and shook my head. And not to disrespect the performance of our players, but it was so obvious to me at that point in time that we had a long way to go, and 16 years later we get to replay these matches. So it will be interesting to see where we are.
beat deserved matter playing tonight usa
We got beat and we deserved to get beat. This was the USA playing tonight ? it doesn't matter who we were missing.
beat deserved
We got beat and we deserved to get beat.