Our worst loss in real game since 1957? Those who claim it’s okay are smoking something good. We’ve had plenty of bad teams in the past, and fielded plenty of subpar sides because of club commitments, injuries, etc.

We also have played plenty of teams with subpar sides better than Mexico “B” who got one fair play goal against Nicaragua, ranked 142nd in the world. So in other words, yesterday was meltdown of historic proportions and yet Kartik doesn’t advocate Bradley’s removal just urges him to improve as a coach. Daniel the jerk off says the refs cost us days after talking about Bradley as some sort of great coach less than two weeks after we needed a miracle to tie Haiti. This isn’t 1974 this is 2009. We are supposedly the big dogs in this region with a thriving professional league, a good second and third division and more and more media/TV interest.

Simply put we cannot perform like we did yesterday with any team, It was 0-0 at HT and the teams were equal. The coaches were not equal and that showed in the 2nd half. Bradley must be fired if we lose at Azteca again.

U left out one very important thing-

Bradley has no idea how to manage a roster.

He took Torres to South Africa and then after said he had no intention of playing him because he was tired. Then why take him in the first place? It was obvious that the US was scrambling for answers with the likes of Kljestan and Bornstein being forced to play major roles and ultimately that is why we lost three of the five games there.

It humorous that you and others would label the Confed Cup a success when we one twice and lost three times out there. A fluky set of events which probably will never repeat themselves caused that.

Then in this Gold Cup Bradley admitted Adu, Davies, Feilhaber and Cherundolo had to leave early for the European season. Then why the heck didn’t he sleect adequate cover for them? And to think CONCACAF bent the rules to give Bradley seven extra spots and he selected guys he wasn’t going to use or didn’t play the same roles as the guys who left.

He may do okay setting up a team for 45 minutes but he has no idea how to manage a roster in a tournament and should be terminated on that basis alone. These are monumental F ups that a 10 year old could avoid with proper planning.

Even when you are proven right like when you said we’d beat Spain you typically are using all kinds of over the top things like Spain never winning outside Europe and never winning on narrow pitches all of which no one else on the internet touched because it is so ludicrous.

Will you be able to provide training reports from Miami when you come back from vacation? I’m curious how they prepare for the altitude? Is their some simulator they bring in?

Adam brings up a very good point. We brought it up in MLS Talk Podcast #100 and I have asked the question- basically the answer is Miami gets a lot of commercial nonstop flights to Europe and is closer to Central America than any other city. So it’s an easy gathering place.
Of course it is at sea level which is an issue, but from a logistical standpoint US Soccer long ago determined that it is the most logical place to meet up and train if we are fielding a mostly European based squad. An MLS based squad could train in Colorado Springs or Mission Viejo as we have done in the past.

Adam does bring up a good point!

Don’t our guys need to acclimate to 7000 feet above sea level?