U.S. Men’s Soccer: 3 Short-Term Goals Team Needs to Display vs. Mexico

By Ben Triana
at Internationaled.org

Published: August 10, 2011

If there is one message that came out of the hiring of Jurgen Klinsmann it's this:

"America, you will finally have your attack-minded soccer."

And as the sports programming cut to the next thirty-second story, that was it.

ESPN analysts Alexi Lalas may have summed up the questions fans had after the comment with one of his more astute comments as he said that he'd like specifics.

Wednesday's friendly against Mexico will be the first concrete example of what attack-minded American soccer might be. A no matter the outcome, there will be reactions, positive and negative, surrounding the international friendly.

But realistically, what significant gains can be made in such short amount of time?

Probably little, which has been expressed by a number of writers at a number of sports outlets.

Then of course they've gone on to list all the caveats surrounding Klinsmann's hiring, all in an attempt to temper America's euphoria over landing such a star-studded coach.

Here are a couple of reasons for skepticism:

Klinsmann doesn't even have a permanent coaching staff.

The transitional state of the U.S. national team and the age of its players.

Or, keep in mind, Klinsmann has signed a contract for four years, not the eight-to-twelve year minimum needed to change an entire federation's mentality (see Uruguay or Germany for examples of time lines and implementation of nationwide changes in training).

That nothing in the style of play has been spelled out, except for in some document written and made available to "properly trained" American youth coaches by Claudio Reyna. Oh, and Klinsmann wasn't involved with the creation of that document.

Then there's the criticisms cast against Klinsmann and his managing of Bayern Munich, claims that Joachim Loew, not Klinsmann, was the mastermind behind Germany's success.

As well as t...

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