# USA Mens National Team Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 10, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-mens-national-team-thread/722196 "2015-06-10T20:31:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-mens-national-team-thread/722196/41 "2015-10-12T02:12:24Z")
Well, the scoreline was closer than I expected, but Mexico dominated the whole game. Defense was absolutely in shambles; no cohesion. Dempsey is done. Hopefully Klinsmann too. Bradley, Cameron, and Guzan played pretty well though. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-mens-national-team-thread/722196/42 "2015-10-12T05:37:48Z")
The game winner was a beautiful strike. Mexico was the better team. Klinsmann will only get fired if he fails to qualify for the World Cup. Unfortunately. Can we lose the 30+ gang now? ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-mens-national-team-thread/722196/43 "2015-10-12T11:38:52Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > The game winner was a beautiful strike. Mexico was the better team. > > Klinsmann will only get fired if he fails to qualify for the World Cup. Unfortunately. > > Can we lose the 30+ gang now? Beasley, and Beckerman, sure. Jones, Guzan, and perhaps Dempsey will be needed for qualifying. Bradley was fired for failing to win the Gold Cup and he never had a team get embarrassed like the team was this year. US Soccer needs someone with balls to run it. Sunil Gulati can GTFO too. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-mens-national-team-thread/722196/44 "2015-10-13T02:27:37Z")
I should have exempted GKs. But the old-timers can hang on as bench players/occasional starters. but let’s not make them the core of the team. Even Jones. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-mens-national-team-thread/722196/45 "2015-10-14T03:36:44Z")
Well that’s embarrassing. Lets see who gets fired, hopefully a lot of people. I don’t think we’ll qualify for the WC if nothing changes. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-mens-national-team-thread/722196/46 "2015-10-14T13:48:24Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > Well that’s embarrassing. Lets see who gets fired, hopefully a lot of people. I don’t think we’ll qualify for the WC if nothing changes. Didn’t look good last night, though I’m not sure how much you can read into a semi-b team playing a friendly two days after a meaningful game. And, I’m going to go way out on a limb here, but I’m betting that the referee’s first language is Espanol, and he doesn’t referee in a U.S. league… not sure if he was trying to get brownie points with a central American league by sticking it to the Yanquis, or proving that he’s got the combination of inconsistency and one-sidedness to fit with Sepp Blatter’s FIFA. I mean, he’d have to work a lot harder to be peak FIFA – you probably can’t say that his calls made the difference in the match – but after all it was just a friendly; he can still step it up for the World Cup. ---
**Author:** ![Asympotically\_fat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Asympotically\_fat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asympotically_fat)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-mens-national-team-thread/722196/47 "2015-10-14T19:14:02Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > Well that’s embarrassing. Lets see who gets fired, hopefully a lot of people. I don’t think we’ll qualify for the WC if nothing changes. I think the USA will qualify, you don’t need to be able to beat Costa Rica and Mexico consistently to get to the WC from CONCACAF. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-mens-national-team-thread/722196.md?page=2)