Steve Sampson
Steve Sampson
Steve Sampsonis a soccer coach, currently of the men's soccer program at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He is also the former head coach of both the United States men's national team and the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer. By the media, he is nicknamed Uncle Sam...
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We don't like the fact that we finished fourth. The advantage is that we get to play San Jose twice and I believe that this club can get a result against them.
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It was very important that we rest some bodies today in preparation for the match against Dallas.
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The three points is very important to maintain at the very least second place and to try and gain some ground against San Jose. We know we have a lot of ground to make up.
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Certainly the opening game on Saturday is going to be very emotional. How we handle that is going to be very important.
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I'm disappointed at some of the chances we gave in the second half. These are the things we have to tidy up, ... Don't get me wrong. I'm very pleased with the result but we have to play better team defense going up and that's something we're going to work on.
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I hope we can leave all together tonight, with Hamilton's remains, but if I have to stay here to deal with this matter, then I will.
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I like the way Cornell Glen finished his chances in the second half. He was very down on himself at halftime and the guys picked him up. He wanted to make a statement in the second half and I think he did.
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Once again, Herculez was showing his tremendous value to this team. The combination of Landon Donovan and him is a lot to handle and will be for any team.
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Their decision to go after Landon early in the game resulted in two yellow cards. This is a guy who takes a lot of beating when he plays for the Galaxy. I think quality players have to be protected - and tonight, he was protected. That made the difference in the game.
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I raised the issue that if you go past four overtimes, that you shouldn't declare co-champions, that it should go to penalties, ... And the first thing that Bruce said was, 'It won't get that far.' That was my first experience with Bruce.
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The bigger the field the better as far as we're concerned. It's a beautiful pitch, and great atmosphere. This team's mentality now going into away matches is so different than it was a month and a half ago.
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Cornell is a player who is always dangerous around the goal.
becomes colleagues goes objective
competitiveness becomes the first objective and being colleagues goes out the window.
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(Cronin) got invaluable playing time tonight and I thought he played very well for his debut.