by A run of four defeats in a row, including a 4-0 hammer from Switzerland on Wednesday, Mauricio Pochettino and his US team have felt the anger of the critics that they will organize together for a year.
The United States will go into its opening game of the Concacaf Gold Cup against Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday.
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“I think it’s the most embarrassed that I have been for the US national team for a long time,” said Kasey Keller, who played 102 times in goal for the USA between 1990 and 2007.
While after the loss, many American fans on social media ventilated similar feelings on social media, it is a follower to vote with their feet and not to take part in games.
In Nashville there were thousands of empty seats in Nashville for the defeat of Switzerland after bad turns for the games from March in Los Angeles.
“There is only a feeling of apathy as part of the United States men’s program and I don’t think this is a hot attitude,” the former striker Taylor Twellman told NBC Sports.
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Alexi Lalas, a star of the USA team, when they last organized a World Cup in 1994, built a career in ‘Hot Takes’ for Fox Sports, but even after the recent disappointment, he fought to dismiss himself for a Star Spangled -Rant.
“It is difficult for me to conjure it up at all, and that makes a little sad. In the past, when I was angry with what was going on, I was forced to express it, and now you are not even worth it, I have not expressed myself how disappointing this is,” he said in his podcast ‘Status of the Union’.
Pochettino was forced to take up a largely second squad in the games of this month with Tim Weah and Weston McKennie in the months like Tim Weah and Weston McKennie, while Captain and Talisman Christian Pulisic decided to rest something together with some other members of the first election squad.
This latter decision led to fierce criticism from some ex-players, including Landon Donovan, the country’s common top scorer, who had left the ABS INSENTERS during the comment of the victory in Portugal in the UEFA Nations League.
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“[Ronaldo is] 40 years old. He played a long -term season. He is tired. He’s out there. I am injured and I can’t help but think about some of our boys on vacation and not want to play in the Gold Cup. It makes me angry, “he said.
This led to a sarcastic answer in the social media of Pulisic’s father Mark, who published a memory of Donovan’s own ‘sabbatical’ from the USA team.
– Pressure –
Pochettino, the former former Tottenham Hotspur manager, who was appointed to the United States in September, is also pressure on printing on the Argentine former Tottenham hotspur manager.
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The coach said he was blaming for the execution against Switzerland, in which the United States was 4-0 at half -time.
“It is my responsibility for the choice of start 11. I wanted to give certain players minutes, but we were never in the game,” said the Argentinian.
While Pochettino’s task may be sure, some wonder if he may not need any help.
“It looks as if he doesn’t know the team, it looks as if he didn’t scold the players, no idea about the parts he has available,” said former USA striker Hercules Gomez in You Tube.
“The US soccer federation, why not place someone with the player pool with the player pool to help Pochettino because it looks like he has no idea who his players are? With a world championship on the home, which is a disaster,” he added.
The United States will jointly organize the World Cup with Mexico and Canada.
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