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...
few figure games hard last veterans
I figure that they're going to play hard, ... that they want to play and the veterans are going to have to play hard if they want to play the last few games of the season.
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It's unrealistic to think about catching Colorado if you have to play two of those three games away and you haven't won an away game. Today would've been a nice place for us to start.
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Our younger players are getting better. That time in the senior games helps.
appreciate certainly games given good paul played
He's been a warrior. He's played some good games in a lot of pain, and I certainly appreciate everything Paul has given us to try and make us more competitive during this stretch.
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The story of the game was how many times we turned the ball over in the midfield and create bad situations for ourselves. You just can't keep making those kinds of mistakes, giveaways, and we seemed to do that a lot.
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Story of the game was how many times can we turn the ball over in the midfield and created bad situations for ourselves defensively.
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It was a tough game and was going back and forth. You can look at the stats and the possession could have said 99 to 1 for Sierra Leone, but we weren't going to stop until the final whistle blew. That's what we said we were going to do at halftime. Any mistake they had we were just going to pounce on them.
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It still leaves a bad taste in your mouth. You want to applaud the effort and change and everything else, but the bottom line is it's still a negative result.
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I think it's huge just to get him back on the field. His leadership, his determination, his abilities, his threat of scoring goals, it's just exciting to have him back. We've missed him.
cancel
They canceled our game, ... We didn't cancel it.
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Gomez, Jaime, Freddy, they can play some ball. If you don't put pressure on them, they're going to pick their spot and they're going to bury it. It really doesn't matter who was in goal.
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He knows how to bring the best out of a player. He has you for a week and he knows exactly how to handle you. He just gave me guidelines. I went out there and he let me play and figure things out for myself.
bummed next playoffs
They were bummed that the playoffs kind of ended, but they are professionals and they know we've got to get better next year.
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He's been solid since we picked him up. I think someone stepped on his toe or something so that's why he came out of the game. We put a little pad under it, so I think that's why he wasn't able to turn and push but he was fine coming back for the ball. But after that he didn't have that burst that he had in the first half.