John Ellinger
John Ellinger
John Ellingeris a former American soccer coach of the Under-17 United States men's national soccer team, and former head coach of Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer...
backs five good last road season start win
We want to get that road win thing off our backs before the end of the season, but we also want to win the last five games. Then, in their minds, we start the season 5-0, and that's a good thing.
along good keeps learn plugging positive
The good thing about Mehdi is that he keeps working and tries. He keeps plugging along and he keeps playing. That's a positive for him. He'll make a mistake, but he'll learn from it and keep going.
definitely hoping infectious losing winning
We're definitely hoping so. I think winning is infectious and losing is as well.
four last road three whether win
Three of the last four have been competitive. But right now we just want to win a game, whether it's on the road or at home, we just want to get a win.
full head responsibility
We quit. I'm the head coach. . . . I'll take full responsibility.
certainly crosses deal players
We certainly have to deal with their crosses and the players they get on the end of the crosses.
game playoffs point
We just have to play every game at this point on and just get a result, ... The playoffs are something you don't realistically want to think about at this point, you just want to do something to get a win.
eliminate
We just have to eliminate mistakes. If you do that, you're always in every game, especially on the road.
looking next outside time today
Today was the first day of next season. That's how we want to look at it. We don't want to be on the outside looking in at this time next year.
nice today
Today would've been a nice place for us to start.
playing seemed sit three
We were just going to take it to them from the start, and why not, why sit back and play defensive. We just seemed to be playing better with three forwards.
lake positives salt team
The positives are, there is a team in Salt Lake City. And the fans; we've been received.
bad ball bounce couple definitely feels frustrated games good happening punished teams work
We feel -- and probably Chivas feels the same way too -- you definitely get punished for your mistakes. Good teams make the ball bounce their way and sometimes we get frustrated with it not happening for us. We've had a couple games where we've said, 'Nothing bad is going to happen, we're going to make our own breaks,' but to actually say that and then play that way, it doesn't always work out.
decide looking players pro soccer
We're looking at players. Players have to decide if pro soccer is in their future.