Bob Bradley
Bob Bradley
Robert "Bob" Bradley is an American association football coach who is currently in charge at Le Havre...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth3 March 1958
CityMontclair, NJ
believe bit building fighting figure good points position realistic sights starting team
I believe that the starting points for building a good team are in place. Now we've got to keep going. It's a process. Then as we go, you know what, we can start to figure out what's realistic and where we are. Where are we in the standings? Are we still in position to set our sights on other things? Are we fighting to make the playoffs? You go a little bit at a time.
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It's not just about the defenders because we must defend well as a team starting with the frontrunners and make sure that in the midfield things are tighter.
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Plain and simple, when you start a season, you start with the idea that you want to win a championship. How you get there is another thing. When we start training today, it's not with the idea of 'Oh, maybe we can do a little better than last year.' No, no. It's the idea that this is the first day of a process that can put us in position to win a championship.
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He is a winner and he is a fighter. I had great respect for the way he played when he joined the team last year. That is a great starting point. Peter Nowak was a winner and a fighter and when you have that mentality from your best players it sets the tone.
establish guys piece pushing start training
Things establish themselves. Every day, the training is right and guys are pushing each other and then from that we are able to start to piece the little things together.
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All of that fits with how a team is coming together. When you have new players and trial players and everything else, it's silly to start talking about anything else.
early games goals periods results season sights start winning
You can only do goals for shorter periods of time. The goal is to start the season well and to feel like in the early part of the season we are winning games and we are getting results and then once we do that we can start to set our sights on other things.
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When I talk about the mentality and how we play and how we're organized, all of that has to work so that now in the midfield we are harder to play against. It's not enough to think that we're good with the ball and that alone will win every game. We want to continue to be good with the ball but that must work now collectively.
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We certainly will need to have a third goalkeeper on our roster somewhere, so we're still wide open in terms of how we put it together.
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It was very close. The replays of the free kick seemed to indicate the ball was over the line.
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Bringing in some experienced players here to ensure day in and day out that we are establishing the right kinds of habits ... goes a long way towards setting a tone.
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Bruce has communicated very clearly with him. He knows it's imperative that he moves himself along.
brad good hoping longer national stretch training
Brad has had a good stretch of training with the national team. He'll be with them a while longer with the possibility of getting into a game. I'm hoping that will happen.
believing felt field investing putting talent
I've always felt that you try in MLS to find a balance. You need young talent. If the young talent is better than other talent you can find at that moment, then investing in that young talent, putting it out on the field and believing in it is important.