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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The first goal by Ben Olsen was a terrific individual effort as well as a big goal psychologically in the game.
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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 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 goal now is to make our team better for the World Cup.
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These are just opportunities to evaluate players as we move forward, but you don't make decisions based on one game. Generally, as a rule of thumb, if you get a point on the road in qualifying, it's a pretty good result. The fact that we played with a new group this game, the result's OK. Would we have liked three points? Sure. But that's the way it is.
players
All in all, to get 16 players in, and getting a win, that's a positive.
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You can see there's a lot of soccer in that player, so we're hopeful.
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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 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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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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I'd much rather have this challenge than having to deal with lesser known countries. The challenge we have in particular ... everybody has basically written us off.
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In games like this, you have to jump on any opportunity that you get.
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I'm optimistic that we can qualify out of the group, regardless of what anyone else thinks. I think we're capable of playing with any team in the world.
End of May, I didn't think he'd be where he was.