John Ellinger
John Ellinger
John Ellingeris a former American soccer coach of the Under-17 United States men's national soccer team, and former head coach of Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer...
full head responsibility
We quit. I'm the head coach. . . . I'll take full responsibility.
chris island left
We left Chris kind of out on an island most of the game.
along good keeps learn plugging positive
The good thing about Mehdi is that he keeps working and tries. He keeps plugging along and he keeps playing. That's a positive for him. He'll make a mistake, but he'll learn from it and keep going.
applaud bad bottom change effort leaves line negative taste
It still leaves a bad taste in your mouth. You want to applaud the effort and change and everything else, but the bottom line is it's still a negative result.
catching colorado games nice three today won
It's unrealistic to think about catching Colorado if you have to play two of those three games away and you haven't won an away game. Today would've been a nice place for us to start.
ball experience field
It's disappointing because I know we're better than what we showed. We have too much experience on the field to give the ball away as many times as we did.
difficult good last san team
It's not going to be easy. We know it's going to be a difficult challenge; San Jose was a very good team last year.
anywhere created easy effort goals good possession stop teams until
Effort was good, possession was very good ... we created a lot of chances. (But) we're never going to go anywhere until we stop all the easy goals that go in. We just make it too easy for teams at times.
basically definitely move proves tough
It just proves basically how tough it's going to be for roster spots. It's definitely going to be competitive as we move forward.
jazz mold ourselves quite strong
It's got strong roots. I don't know if we've quite established ourselves in the Jazz mold yet, but we're hopeful.
bottom seems
It seems that when you're at the bottom of the table, things just don't go your way.
ball deal definitely moment win
It was definitely disappointing to see how they scored. We should have done better at that moment to win the ball and deal with the situation, but other than that we did really well defensively.
goal
It was so demoralizing. It's that way in any sport; you give up a goal right before halftime, and it demoralizes.
final game mistake possession stop tough until whistle
It was a tough game and was going back and forth. You can look at the stats and the possession could have said 99 to 1 for Sierra Leone, but we weren't going to stop until the final whistle blew. That's what we said we were going to do at halftime. Any mistake they had we were just going to pounce on them.