1. Benny Feilhaber and Michael Bradley are the 2 best central midfielders that US has and should have an ideal partnerchip by the 2010 world cup. Feilhaber plays a lot like Cesc Fabregas and Bradley plays a lot like Carrick excpet unlike Carrick, Bradley can tackle
2. Bob Bradley is the man for US soccer, the way he rotated the squad during the cup was absolutely outstanding, and his substitutions during the final were spot on and probably saved us from defeat.
3. Clint Dempsey is an absolute class player, and altough he did not show it in some of the later games of the tournament, I think that is due to the fact that when you have him playing in the withdrawn striker role, you need to have a quality striker up top, something the US does not currently have. The future does look bright though, if we can send EJ, Ching, Twellman, and Altidore to Europe to gain some real experience as the MLS clearly isnt the placew for an up and coming striker. Also, get Ferrari away from Rossi and Italy, while I do repect Serie A, I think La Liga and the Premiership are the place for our strikers to be at, and if they cannot get to those leagues, at least sign for a decent club in Europe where our strikers can work their way up to the premiership
4. I am not sure what Titus Bramble did to Onyewu but clearly Demerit is the much better center back at this moment. Gooch should fire his agent for sending him to the wreck that is Newcastle when, in all likelihood, he could have signed for Chelsea. We need to get Gooch to either Birmingham or a quality Championship side, like Charlton. And by the way, Simek should be the Us's answer for right back, get him into the Premiership!!
5. No question about it, Tim Howard is our number one, but I would like to see Marcus Hannemen get more call ups from Bob Bradley
6. While Landond Donovan may be a pussy, the US still relies on Beasely and him.
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I agree totally. But I think Bradley needs to work on his decision-making before he becomes the automatic central midfield partner with Benny. He goes to the ground too often to make slide tackles when he should really stay on his feet and defend.
Great, insightful blog, by the way.
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