Bruce Arena
Bruce Arena
Bruce Arena is a former professional soccer player, and coach of the Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer. Arena is the former coach of the United States men's national soccer team and a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Arena has had a long and distinguished coaching career, and is considered to be one of the most successful coaches in North American soccer history. He was head coach of the U.S. at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the...
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You can see there's a lot of soccer in that player, so we're hopeful.
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You can run around all you want with a fitness coach but you have to play games. Getting 90 minutes in is valuable. Hopefully that pays some dividends these next couple of games.
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If I'd grade us, I'd say a C. We can't worry about it. We have to remember that it's January and a lot of players have been away from the game for a while.
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If he's healthy we have two months to see if he can get fit to play in a World Cup. It's not like we need to rush him back into everything. We know the kind of player he is. There's a lot of quality there and if, over the next couple of weeks, we see steady improvement he's obviously going to get pretty strong consideration for the final roster.
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I don't think the result of the game is that important, as much as is the performance of the players. Some of the players are on the fence so to speak and have their last opportunity.
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The Guatemala game will provide us with another good opponent as we continue to prepare and evaluate players for the 2006 World Cup roster.
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The first one was a big one because it was difficult for us to get quality chances. I'm sure this will give him confidence heading into qualifying.
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The match in Cary is our last game before we make our final decisions on the World Cup roster, so it is obviously an important one for us.
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And he just turned 23. I think we've got ourselves a real good one there.
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The goal now is to make our team better for the World Cup.
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The Gold Cup is the biggest headache on the schedule. We want to be respectful of the confederation championship and put our best team out there and try to win it. However, our focus has to be on World Cup qualifying. Those 10 games are the most important.
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The German team needs a win because the public demands it.
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The draw is important for a country like the U.S. For a country like Brazil it doesn't matter. And the only way anybody determines whether you did well or not is how you advance.
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The foreign coaches have put a lot of pressure on the English way of doing things, and that's going to be for the better in the long run.