Men’s national team players in the United States held small group talks this week after a 4-0 defeat on Tuesday against Switzerland. with Gold Cup Fast-the first USMnt match is on Sunday against Trinidad and Tobago (6 pm Eastern time on Fox) before completing team play against Saudi Arabia and Haiti-the most experienced players in the team are trying to show confidence in the youngest in order to create a kind of pre-tournament spark.
“It is one of these [games] To look at her, analyze her, and you realize that she was not good enough “,” veteran defender Tim Reem The correspondents said on Friday afternoon. “But you can take a lot of different learning experiences from it. What will you take to this level for many of these men? What do you have to do day after day to be able to put these things properly?
“As it is difficult at that direct moment after that, and the extent of a terrible, he feels that he loses the way we did and played the way we did, it is something you should just take on the plane and understand what it takes to reach this level and compete at this level.”
Usmnt was hoping to get a momentum before the Gold Cup with two games sent against quality opponents last week. While the team managed to get positives out of the first match, a 2-1 loss against Türkiye, the Swiss cut an American young team and scored four goals in the first 36 minutes of the match. The result created a huge amount of anxiety and criticism, especially given that the World Cup at home is now less than 365 days away.
While Reem, 37, has not tested this delicate kind of situation in his career, he bore many highlands and declines mixed with abundance of external negativity. He can transfer some wisdom to his younger colleagues on how to give things in the right direction.
“I think the comprehensive message for us is like, this is our group now. This is the one we have to rely on,” said Reem. “Each of us must get each other’s back and we all have to adhere to each other. Anything that is said outside is, as you know, it’s clichés, but this noise. There is nothing we can do about what people say there. Regardless of whether you are playing the greatest game in your life or the worst game in your life, there will be opinions on each of them.
“It is just an issue, let’s put our heads down and return to each other, and communicate is as high as it can be, and we go beyond it. It is a storm and you can either escape from it, hide from it, or return yourself to the outside and we say,” Well, we are going again. And that’s all you can do. “
John TolkinWhich came as an alternative in the second half against Switzerland, he repeated similar feelings.
“The biggest thing is not to hit ourselves too much,” said 22 -year -old defender. “It is clear that we are very disappointed and know that it is not good enough and not the standard we want to play. But the second that begins to get very negative and a kind of defeating yourself, I think things can go very south.”
The USMnt MAURICIO PoCittino manager bears a series of four losing matches with the team. (Photo by John Dageon/ISI photos/USF/Getty Images)
Tolkin only appeared five times for USMnt. It might be one of the latest faces in the list of the main coach, MAURICIO POCITTINO, but this does not mean that he has not tested an adverb in his career. For example, he said that he is going through the German side Holstein Keel in his first year in Bundesliga He gave him a unique view of what the American team is going through now.
“It is a kind of chaotic time at the present time,” said Tolkin. “It seems as if we are lying or something, but you really have to look at the man next to you and fight only for every training session, every match. Because what you see on the Internet, all these media, all opinions – it is impossible these days not to see that – but you really have to tend to the left and trust you that they will work to work for you.
“We have a great opportunity now to change the narration and put the focus towards the next World Cup next summer, and that is [by winning] this [Gold Cup] The tournament and this is what we want to do. To do this, you must prevent all this other noise and focus on all people in the treasury room, training staff, training staff and all people who travel with them together and who are working hard to prepare us for these games. So if we can do this, I think you will see success in this field. We hope that the most lighter lives everywhere. “
Laken Litman covers university football, university basketball and football for Fox Sports. I had previously written for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, USA Toys and Indianapolis Star. It is the author of “Strong Like A”, published in the Spring of 2022 to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the ninth title. Follow it in Lakenlitman.
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