Apart from my Bosnia-Herzegovina, USA will be another team I will be cheering for in Brazil. In this match here USA won fair and square,great team ,great opponent,nice match.Congrats, deserved win.
Don't quote me on this, but I believe that there will be an exhibition tournament prior to the World Cup held in the United States. Those that are involved are the teams that are training in the USA before the World Cup. It sounds like the teams will be: USA, Spain, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Greece, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Honduras. I might be wrong, but it does sound like the USA and Bosnia will have a friendly before the World Cup :)
shnickel1 close, the confederations cup is sorta a pre-world cup tornament held 1 year before the world cup but i dont think it was in the US i dont rembrr tho it was a year or 2 ago
SKA_16 It wasn't the Confederations Cup, but there was a mini friendly tournament held in the USA featuring most of those teams. It was pretty much just a collection of friendlies.
Anyone else watching this in 2022? Altidore was so insane in 2013. The first goal and the free kick were so confident..USMNT still hasn’t had a true striker since altidore’s prime ended. We’ve got a much better team overall though. Making us proud in Qatar right now. Go USA!
I'm cheering for Bosnia as well. I really expect Bosnia to show the world they belong in a area that only most know of Croatia and Serbia in the football world. Bosnia is just as good.
Josh R You ain't fucking awful when you & i quote from the basic info: Jozy Altidore notched his second career hat trick and became the first USA player to score a goal in five straight games as the U.S Now, he's no Ronaldo or Messi, but for an American player he is a monster.
Josh R I have seen many matches with him for the US & he does a really good job. But your right, he hasn't done it good yet in premier League, but it's also his first season, it takes time for most players to get used to the high pace & skillfulness. Just look at Bony from Vitesse. He was the top score in Eredivisie he came to Swansea & have been a huge disappointment.
It's his second season in England, he played for Hull about 3/4 years ago. If you take that one amazing season which might have just been a lucky year, he's scored 19 league goals in 110 games in Europe, that is a very poor record. Bony has been a huge disappointment? What? He's been arguably their best player, 25 goals in total and 5th top scorer in the EPL.
Aunque soy de herencia Hispana mi Espanol no es perfecto, pero muchas gracias desde USA. Agradecemos el respeto que otros nos dan. Mientras gentes de alta calidad como Klinsmann este con nosotros, tenemos fe que vamos a seguir creciendo.
From what I've seen from 95% of your commenters is respect and acknowledgement. Thank you! However, there's still quite few that slam the USA at this sport. What the original poster said is literally how we feel. You should have seen what Europeans were saying when we beat Germany. "It was their F team, the A team would won 15-0" and stuff like that. "You didn't deserve to beat Spain" ... You guys have mostly shown respect so thank you. We'll see you guys in Brazil :)
Are people still complaining about the US winning this match a few months ago? Seriously. I'm american and as much as im glad we won, bosnia's got a great team. I think they'll advance in their group for this year's WC.
It was a great friendly fair win for USA it's amazing how USA has improved through the ages and they deserve the utter most respect they have the will to learn and get better and better. From a random Bosnian Fan :-)
John Anthony Brooks, Aron Johannsson, and Bobby Wood each made their debut. I remember watching this game and was really happy with Johannsson. I wish he could've scored. This game makes me miss Eddie Johnson :(. He should've got the ticket to Brazil and not Wondo. Johnson helped a whole bunch during qualifications.
Hahah thanx man,a little humor hasnt killed nobody...good luck to you and the us,hope when we meet again it will be just as entertaining as the friendly
+pokeplatinum50 I know, after Jozy Altidore got injured in the World Cup with the U.S. is like if that injury affected him. What happened to him? He used to be our main striker and we used to have Dempsey as a CAM and Bradley, Jones as a CDM before the World Cup. Now Altidore is complete bullshit for the National Team. I wish Jozy would play like this against Mexico in October 10
He's lacking confidence. He is still really scared about getting hurt again. The game against Mexico in the CONCACAF Cup was the first time in almost two years I've seen Jozy just have a go from outside the box. This is good because that means he isn't afraid to shoot anymore. Oh and our fans being absolute assholes to him constantly doesn't help.
Thank you. We do view it as a friendly, but it had a little bit of an extra appeal to it. First off, the fact that we beat Bosnia in Bosnia actually got us very excited. That shows how much we respect the Bosnian team. To us, this was a measure of what we will have to face in the World Cup, and so this game had a meaning to us. You're right, football/soccer is getting a lot more popular here. And yes, we are amazed at Klinsmann, he's making us formidable. Good job too Bosnia, you guys are good!
Me too. Beeler has been awesome but Gonzalez has been average at best. He isn't a great passer like John Brooks and he makes to many mental mistakes. Watch the Belgium game for an example. If Brooks and Chandler/Yeadon can hold down the spots oppisite fabian and besler we have a chance to surprise some peeps.
A real shame that he came up with that hammy in the first match in the World Cup.He could have been the differance maker to advance further with more wins!!!!!!!!
man once Jozy Altidore comes back into the team he is going to make us so much better in the coming games hopefully he and Dempsey are on the Gold Cup roster we need to win this tournament to defend our title.
That is class A fan sportsmanship. Thank you. To be honest I think many of my fellow Americans (myself included) were a bit surprised to see how wonderfully our guys played the second half. I'll still be rooting for Dzeko at Manchester City when the season starts.
Agreed...both Bradley and Altidore were simply spectacular against Bosnia-Herzegovina!! And, i must say, i was tremendously excited/surprised about how Johannssoon went all-out/no fear as soon as the kid got out on the pitch! The kid's def got some flash & flair - should be tons of fun to watch in the coming months!!!
I wonder how much USMNT paid to Bosnia at the half to win this game. It was so obvious. Even a blind man could see it... but then again if u aint got the skills to win you sure got money to pay.
The US did not pay Bosnia to win, it was Bosnia's coach who decided to switch out players. Plus it was a fair game since the US was also testing out some new players. Don't say we got no skill because we are about the same level and this was just a friendly. At least we are both going to Brazil.
USA won fair and square ! Looking forward for rematch in US or in Brazil. Bosnia is good,but here US was better ,period ! I am Bosnian and I approve this message ! Nema tu sta,Amerikanci su bili bolji I spremniji ,nasi su se opustili I naravno sve one izmjene..
You put Bradley on the field and the U.S. team takes a huge step up. Now that he and Altidore are understanding each other - good things are going to happen. Johannson looked good - nice to see some youth coming up.
That was actually a good one, props for that. No it was late at night where I was in at the time and I was testing my memorization skills without checking my sources with FIFA or anything. The point is they both won a match each but Slovakia is out of the qualification race.
The thing that's so great about Michael Bradley is that he's not only solid defensively and doesn't give the ball away easily, but he creates things out of nothing and he does it so well. It's even better because he does it from his CDM position allowing for us to have four other players in front of him able to feed off that.
Don't quote me on this, but I believe that there will be an exhibition tournament prior to the World Cup held in the United States. Those that are involved are the teams that are training in the USA before the World Cup. It sounds like the teams will be: USA, Spain, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Greece, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Honduras. I might be wrong, but it does sound like the USA and Bosnia will have a friendly before the World Cup :)
2002 world cup the USA made it to the quarter finals, dominated Germany (Klose scores) and then the USA score but they handballed it out and the ref didn't call it. The USA dominated Germany that game, it wasn't even close. It was unfair. I'm a little surprised you said Jozy Altidore. I think Jozy can become world class and that his potential is there but I personally rate Michael Bradley and Landon Donovan as much better. Donovan had bids from Man City, Bayern, AC Milan, Roma, Everton
I agree I thought you were talking to me...our coach certainly underestimated the us,he admitted it after the game..but I give credit to the us as I said before,you have a experianced coach and a great squad to make it to Brazil and even suprise some people along the way,I feel the same way about my country,if we can only make it to Brazil people would like the way we play...good luck to the us from a Bosnian
your team looked like it had some pretty good players as well. it always amazes me to see so many national teams in your region who have so many good players and they are stars on the club level as well. what's the secret to developing your players?
I think Jozy can be great, but I think his team is harming him. They don't create plays, they don't pass, they just shoot from 40 yards out. The few times he's had plays to him he's actually done something good. But he doesn't get it. And it's frustrating to watch. Jozy's strength is lethal & if he can become a poacher than it's over, and he's shown glimpses of that. I think he can become world class but I personally think we have players who are better at the moment. Just my personal opinion.
and like I said, I'm not saying he's better than any of those players. He's not close to them. I'm just making a point as to that it's not just the competition, he does it to anyone and that his statistic deserves recognition and no belittling.
Fine I'll use another one. Fabian Johnson. I think he's severely underrated. Doesn't get as much love outside of the USA as he deserves. He's very talented. Our defense is shaky, and he's probably our best defender and is very good on the attack. Doesn't score a lot but he can provide very well. He made the second goal happen with that pass through the legs.
Johansson showed real raw talent, with more caps he'll start figuring out where to make his runs and how to work with Altidore, and he's only 22 so he definitely has time. And like you said, Brooks will get there, he's definitely gonna have to wait to get some time though with Gonzalez and Besler playing the way they do. Plus Klinnsman couldn't praise Goodson enough for his performance during the gold cup. Either way, the US definitley proved they have some skillful youth coming up.
Johannson, Luis Gil, Brooks, Shea, Corona, Villarreal, Gatt, Diskerud, McInerney, hell even Altidore. All of them are under 23. So I'm very excited for the future of US soccer, especially how in form we are right now.
I believe it is. Dzeko's header was awesome vs us. Like I said to you as well, we're also scoring 4-6 goals on average every game. There's about 3 games where we didn't out of 12. And I mean that Landon Donovan has 56 goals and 57 assists for his country. No other player in history has over Both 50 goals and 50 assists. Also in 74% of games he has played he's contributed to a goal. That's damn good.
Fortunately, our extremely good performances, rise in the rankings, and legendary coach have all given us leverage among these dual nationals. We really really really need to do well in the WC as a point to these Americans that get tempted by other teams.
You're dead on. BIH mistook me saying Mexico is a good team for something else, but I did clear up that Mexico are having issues. I think it's confidence, the media, the pressure, the coach, and you're right about the fans.
haha I'll take a look. I'm hoping you watched the USA vs Slovenia one that I sent you, that's actually a very well made video and brought me back shivers after watching it.
Bradley and altidore were boss that game. It's becoming a regular thing for altidore, but Bradley is always The General every game. Bradley is so underrated, he makes world class passes look so easy and he is tidy defensively. he always controls the tempo of the game. We were missing some of our key players, this isn't the Eleven for Brazil, but we beat this class team anyway, and I'm happy. can't wait to see Altidore and Bradley in Brazil. And I hope Shea, Diskerud, Johannson make it to Brazil.
hahaha he's probably our 4th best field player. However, it showed when we were missing him for most of Costa Rica due to injury. It also showed how good Bradley is because we missed him dearly. It showed how bad we need both players.
hahaha he caught your attention did he not?? He is our 23 year old striker who scored 31 goals last year in the Eredevisie. He's now playing in the Premiere League so all of us Americans are hopeful.
I just happen to read your comment and I want to tell you that the US was also using quite a few brand new players who have never played for the team and many of our starters were not playing when we faced you guys. So I say we were even. Please don't take my comment the wrong way I just wanted to point that mistake out. Hope we meet in Brazil to see our full A squads battle it out. Good luck with qualifying :)
All I'm gonna say, we destroyed you first half, and our coach took off our good players to prevent injuries for the upcoming Slovakia games ins September for the World Cup qualification. Good game USA, well done. Altidore is a beast.
I love seeing this usa squad because they now have such fluid movements that you thought you could only see in teams like england, russia, or even spain.
and this comment was going more in depth about it showing you that it's not just because he plays in CONCACAF. Seriously, how can you not clap your hands at that statistic. He deserves it.
I'd say Gonzalez and Besler are really solid, we haven't seen that team go up against anyone serious yet. They're just now being used in the last year or 2, I think they can be really good if they play together a bit more.
Enjoyed the lovely combination play at 6:11. Almost tiki taka with Bradley swimming over like that to get that ball and draw the midfield closer together to spring him out. Very lovely play indeed.
I'm glad you think so, I think Donovan and Dzeko would cause a living hell for everyone as Donovan is an elite crosser and Dzeko is tall and a stud of a finisher. Okay, I didn't know a lot about your defenders I just assumed they were all better except for Fabian Johnson. He plays for Hoffenheim in Germany, he's our best defender but often we deploy him as a LM because he's so good there. Very well rounded player. He set up Jozy's first goal in this game with that through the leg pass.
Its Altidore, just thought I'd clear it up :) Like I said, we both expirimented, we did what friendlies were supposed to do. Yes, you had a CB pairing that doesn't have chemistry but ours didn't either. Brooks has no chemistry with Cameron as Brooks has never played for us. Cameron is also not a CB either. But we played a great game and it was very entertaining. Dzeko and Ibisevic are great players
a lot of that is a credit to the players such as Michael Bradley, Jozy Altidore, Landon Donovan and Clint Dempsey, but most of that is credit to the coach Jurgen Klinsmann. We had no idea that we could play this well. He came in and said "we're going to play attacking soccer" and we said "we're not good enough to"... we were wrong. A lot of those players out there were players that pulled off that style without being one of our best, and so that credit goes to the coach.
Quality of players isn't everything. Confidence and chemistry is also included. Thank you for actually giving credit to 5 of our players. To be honest, nobody will know if Donovan is world class, he probably should have been (2002 best young player of WC) but he never went to Europe full time. However, he does put the team on his back in more ways than one. Always has. Here's an example: /watch?v=UXbgfW4b3Tw. He does that all the time. 56 goals, 57 assists. We don't consider him elite though.
The Bosnia coach knew that US had one step ahead of them in this game. No nation ever took pre-WC international friendly game for granted. The sold out crowd in this stadium spoke the volume and finally the winner took it all. For what I saw in this video and other US soccer games of 2013, I can assure anyone that US is one of the top teams to watch in WC 2014. US had been struggling to got their place in Men's WC and they will surely get there any time soon just like Spain did in 2010 WC.
johansson impressed me. Brooks with some more caps will be solid in the back, his inexperience definitely showed in the two dzeko goals. Johansson seemed class though.
So I'm extremely new to the World Cup and how it works, so far from little research I understand that there are 32 teams that play in the world cup that starts this summer. What's happening now is the qualifying rounds right? Could anyone tell me how MNT is doing and what we need to do to get in the gifted 32?
Wesleyt105. Former yugoslavia almost always made it to the world cup. While the US not so much, and a country with 4million people only Bosnia made it into Europe's 9 qualifying teams thats amazing. Im not ragging on the States, but they just lately started catching up in soccer with other countries.
Michael Bradley is the future captain, he was the hands on fan favorite to win it but Klinsmann gave it to Clint Dempsey because he wanted the team to emulate Clint's "never die, never feel inferior, continuously fight to the death" attitude, and hey, I agree with it. That was a smart captaincy move.
Did you watch the 50 second highlight reel I showed you? Bradley does that to anyone with ease. That was against Brazil and he did it numerous times. That was Brazil's starting defense too with Thiago Silva featuring, who had an incredible save vs Clint Dempsey I might add.
We have won 5 gold cups not 1.Got runners-up in the 2009 Confederations Cup. We made it to Round of 16 in the 1994 and 2010 WC. We made it to the Quarters in 2002. And our team has greatly improved from the team that played in the 2010 WC.
bradley won the africa nations cup with egypt thus he is a great coach better than any one of greece. also having klinsmann as our coach means that usmnt was attractive to him and us soccer had the money and ability to make a contract with him
Oh my goodness..Donovan is the best American ever. He's the only player ever in the world to have more than 50 goals and 50 assists. Currently, he's never played better. His little break actually improved him. AC Milan just placed a bid for him, that shows he's still very good. He's still super fast, he's still an elite passer and his goal scoring ability is still excellent. I already explained Dempsey's accolades to you. Most of our A team wasn't there, and we had 2 new guys. Just give credit
oh come on, you were saying that I only commend 5 players, so I gave another one credit. Fabian Johnson has performed very well for the United States. I don't follow his Bundesliga team but I know for the United States there are not many Americans that would want the guy benched. I'm giving him credit when you stated that I only commend 5 players on our team. He deserves credit in my opinion. If you think Burekic is important, than you're free to give him credit too.
Actually yes, I love highlights. For having two players who have never played together as CB's, and one of them was brand new and the other one is a LB and not a CB, Bradley did a damn good job at stopping you guys in his CDM position. On top of that, he created a lot of chances. Also, he was playing CDM in this game when he did this: /watch?v=3Hp2E6DdIvk . Also Landon Donovan had a hattrick that game and an assist. Unfortunately there's really only recent highlights of American players :(
oh, well I'm glad you think so :) At first I thought you were kidding but I see you're serious! I'm glad, I do think that team would be great too! It fixes, in my opinion, most of the weak spots making the team very formidable. And there's so many attacking threats, (especially as Donovan is an elite crosser and Dzeko is tall and a great poacher/header, they'd combine so well) I think they'd be very worrisome!
now one guy that easily could play it and immediately be elite is Larry Fitzgerald at Goalkeeper. That guy catches everything. His skills would translate immensely
Not too long ago, every stadium was like that for soccer. That just shows you the massive improvement we're getting overall, including the stadiums and the fan base. This sport wouldn't make our sports channel network at all (hence the very few highlights of American players even 5 years ago) but now it's making it all of the time. 2010 was a pivotal year for Americans haha. It's become quite popular with the youth and is consistently making highlights on the sports channel.
It happens and I agree with you about Costa Rica,they def have talented players as well...Bosnia is better than Slovakia but they played better than we did yesterday and they actually deserved the win..good luck to the us in the qualifiers,hope they make it to Brazil and amaze some people
Absolutely, it's scary what happens now that our amazing athletic methodology that has kept us at least competing with the world has talent to back it up. Never die is exactly the American way. And that was showed last night
Apart from my Bosnia-Herzegovina, USA will be another team I will be cheering for in Brazil. In this match here USA won fair and square,great team ,great opponent,nice match.Congrats, deserved win.
Don't quote me on this, but I believe that there will be an exhibition tournament prior to the World Cup held in the United States. Those that are involved are the teams that are training in the USA before the World Cup. It sounds like the teams will be: USA, Spain, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Greece, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Honduras. I might be wrong, but it does sound like the USA and Bosnia will have a friendly before the World Cup :)
shnickel1 close, the confederations cup is sorta a pre-world cup tornament held 1 year before the world cup but i dont think it was in the US i dont rembrr tho it was a year or 2 ago
SKA_16 It wasn't the Confederations Cup, but there was a mini friendly tournament held in the USA featuring most of those teams. It was pretty much just a collection of friendlies.
dinamikanada4x4 I am from BOSNIA and I think this was a fair match
Greetings to USA from Bosnia !!
How are things over there?
@@TheRealJakeLOL so well, visit us 😂
I was at this match, I was 13 years old, now I am 20 and I am still going to the matches of Bosnia and Herzegovina
I'm sorry you guys missed out on Euros
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Damn you saw a good game (unfortunately not for you )
@@Yusoo8 it's a friendly game between friendly countries with friendly people
Me too!
Anyone else watching this in 2022? Altidore was so insane in 2013. The first goal and the free kick were so confident..USMNT still hasn’t had a true striker since altidore’s prime ended. We’ve got a much better team overall though. Making us proud in Qatar right now. Go USA!
I love American commentary, they explain the situation really well.
Jozy was a beast here. Damn it would be hard to find any current USA player that was better than 2013 Jozy
I'm cheering for Bosnia as well. I really expect Bosnia to show the world they belong in a area that only most know of Croatia and Serbia in the football world. Bosnia is just as good.
Damn man. That Altidore dude is a monster. USA have a really good striker.
Are you joking? He's fucking awful.
Josh R You ain't fucking awful when you & i quote from the basic info: Jozy Altidore notched his second career hat trick and became the first USA player to score a goal in five straight games as the U.S Now, he's no Ronaldo or Messi, but for an American player he is a monster.
He's not even good for an American player, in his 53 games in the Premier League he's scored a grand total of 2 goals.
Josh R
I have seen many matches with him for the US & he does a really good job. But your right, he hasn't done it good yet in premier League, but it's also his first season, it takes time for most players to get used to the high pace & skillfulness. Just look at Bony from Vitesse. He was the top score in Eredivisie he came to Swansea & have been a huge disappointment.
It's his second season in England, he played for Hull about 3/4 years ago. If you take that one amazing season which might have just been a lucky year, he's scored 19 league goals in 110 games in Europe, that is a very poor record. Bony has been a huge disappointment? What? He's been arguably their best player, 25 goals in total and 5th top scorer in the EPL.
Aunque soy de herencia Hispana mi Espanol no es perfecto, pero muchas gracias desde USA. Agradecemos el respeto que otros nos dan. Mientras gentes de alta calidad como Klinsmann este con nosotros, tenemos fe que vamos a seguir creciendo.
From what I've seen from 95% of your commenters is respect and acknowledgement. Thank you! However, there's still quite few that slam the USA at this sport. What the original poster said is literally how we feel. You should have seen what Europeans were saying when we beat Germany. "It was their F team, the A team would won 15-0" and stuff like that. "You didn't deserve to beat Spain" ... You guys have mostly shown respect so thank you. We'll see you guys in Brazil :)
Are people still complaining about the US winning this match a few months ago? Seriously. I'm american and as much as im glad we won, bosnia's got a great team. I think they'll advance in their group for this year's WC.
Anthony Long no theu wont hahaha
It was a great friendly fair win for USA it's amazing how USA has improved through the ages and they deserve the utter most respect they have the will to learn and get better and better. From a random Bosnian Fan :-)
John Anthony Brooks, Aron Johannsson, and Bobby Wood each made their debut. I remember watching this game and was really happy with Johannsson. I wish he could've scored. This game makes me miss Eddie Johnson :(. He should've got the ticket to Brazil and not Wondo. Johnson helped a whole bunch during qualifications.
I didn't know that. Damn its a shame that injuries to Wood and Johannsson really hurt our forward pool.
that free kick to put the US ahead was absolutely world class.
Dzeko is my fav
Hahah thanx man,a little humor hasnt killed nobody...good luck to you and the us,hope when we meet again it will be just as entertaining as the friendly
mogli smo pobjedit :/
Thank you!
Does someone mind explaining to me what happened to this version of Jozy Altidore?
I would like to know the same thing.
+pokeplatinum50 I know, after Jozy Altidore got injured in the World Cup with the U.S. is like if that injury affected him. What happened to him? He used to be our main striker and we used to have Dempsey as a CAM and Bradley, Jones as a CDM before the World Cup. Now Altidore is complete bullshit for the National Team. I wish Jozy would play like this against Mexico in October 10
He's lacking confidence. He is still really scared about getting hurt again. The game against Mexico in the CONCACAF Cup was the first time in almost two years I've seen Jozy just have a go from outside the box. This is good because that means he isn't afraid to shoot anymore. Oh and our fans being absolute assholes to him constantly doesn't help.
Jozy has the strength power and ability to be a great player. unfortunately he is injury prone and lacks the mental game to be a dominant striker
He's back. Scored against Costa Rica in the semifinal in Gold Cup yesterday, playing pretty well
Thank you. We do view it as a friendly, but it had a little bit of an extra appeal to it. First off, the fact that we beat Bosnia in Bosnia actually got us very excited. That shows how much we respect the Bosnian team. To us, this was a measure of what we will have to face in the World Cup, and so this game had a meaning to us. You're right, football/soccer is getting a lot more popular here. And yes, we are amazed at Klinsmann, he's making us formidable. Good job too Bosnia, you guys are good!
I'm really worried about the US defense heading into the world cup, it's still not good enough.
Me too. Beeler has been awesome but Gonzalez has been average at best. He isn't a great passer like John Brooks and he makes to many mental mistakes. Watch the Belgium game for an example. If Brooks and Chandler/Yeadon can hold down the spots oppisite fabian and besler we have a chance to surprise some peeps.
Love the quality and awesome vid subscribed
A real shame that he came up with that hammy in the first match in the World Cup.He could have been the differance maker to advance further with more wins!!!!!!!!
wtf bih champions
man once Jozy Altidore comes back into the team he is going to make us so much better in the coming games hopefully he and Dempsey are on the Gold Cup roster we need to win this tournament to defend our title.
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@@rudyfat7073 This comment is also 5 years old dumb fuck. It's not relavent anymore.
USA 🇺🇸
That is class A fan sportsmanship. Thank you.
To be honest I think many of my fellow Americans (myself included) were a bit surprised to see how wonderfully our guys played the second half.
I'll still be rooting for Dzeko at Manchester City when the season starts.
No disrespect to anyone, I know it's just a friendly. Sorry :(
Agreed...both Bradley and Altidore were simply spectacular against Bosnia-Herzegovina!! And, i must say, i was tremendously excited/surprised about how Johannssoon went all-out/no fear as soon as the kid got out on the pitch! The kid's def got some flash & flair - should be tons of fun to watch in the coming months!!!
I wonder how much USMNT paid to Bosnia at the half to win this game. It was so obvious. Even a blind man could see it... but then again if u aint got the skills to win you sure got money to pay.
Hahaha u dont now thing about soccer buddy. Why did Bosnian coach take out 3 best players right at the beginning of the second half?
Zikret Hasic It's a friendly dude, friendlies are meant for testing new players.
I understand that buddy but it was a total mistake.
The US did not pay Bosnia to win, it was Bosnia's coach who decided to switch out players. Plus it was a fair game since the US was also testing out some new players. Don't say we got no skill because we are about the same level and this was just a friendly. At least we are both going to Brazil.
Not fair to the fans
Thank you, that is exactly what I was saying. I appreciate your response.
Hahaha USA the best
hahahahahahahahaha NO
Thanks
USA won fair and square ! Looking forward for rematch in US or in Brazil. Bosnia is good,but here US was better ,period ! I am Bosnian and I approve this message ! Nema tu sta,Amerikanci su bili bolji I spremniji ,nasi su se opustili I naravno sve one izmjene..
Wow Jozy's progress is remarkable.
You put Bradley on the field and the U.S. team takes a huge step up. Now that he and Altidore are understanding each other - good things are going to happen. Johannson looked good - nice to see some youth coming up.
Thanks :)
That was actually a good one, props for that. No it was late at night where I was in at the time and I was testing my memorization skills without checking my sources with FIFA or anything. The point is they both won a match each but Slovakia is out of the qualification race.
The thing that's so great about Michael Bradley is that he's not only solid defensively and doesn't give the ball away easily, but he creates things out of nothing and he does it so well. It's even better because he does it from his CDM position allowing for us to have four other players in front of him able to feed off that.
Don't quote me on this, but I believe that there will be an exhibition tournament prior to the World Cup held in the United States. Those that are involved are the teams that are training in the USA before the World Cup. It sounds like the teams will be: USA, Spain, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Greece, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Honduras. I might be wrong, but it does sound like the USA and Bosnia will have a friendly before the World Cup :)
2002 world cup the USA made it to the quarter finals, dominated Germany (Klose scores) and then the USA score but they handballed it out and the ref didn't call it. The USA dominated Germany that game, it wasn't even close. It was unfair.
I'm a little surprised you said Jozy Altidore. I think Jozy can become world class and that his potential is there but I personally rate Michael Bradley and Landon Donovan as much better. Donovan had bids from Man City, Bayern, AC Milan, Roma, Everton
I agree I thought you were talking to me...our coach certainly underestimated the us,he admitted it after the game..but I give credit to the us as I said before,you have a experianced coach and a great squad to make it to Brazil and even suprise some people along the way,I feel the same way about my country,if we can only make it to Brazil people would like the way we play...good luck to the us from a Bosnian
your team looked like it had some pretty good players as well. it always amazes me to see so many national teams in your region who have so many good players and they are stars on the club level as well. what's the secret to developing your players?
I think Jozy can be great, but I think his team is harming him. They don't create plays, they don't pass, they just shoot from 40 yards out. The few times he's had plays to him he's actually done something good. But he doesn't get it. And it's frustrating to watch. Jozy's strength is lethal & if he can become a poacher than it's over, and he's shown glimpses of that. I think he can become world class but I personally think we have players who are better at the moment. Just my personal opinion.
and like I said, I'm not saying he's better than any of those players. He's not close to them. I'm just making a point as to that it's not just the competition, he does it to anyone and that his statistic deserves recognition and no belittling.
Great! That's all I need for now haha thank you
Fine I'll use another one. Fabian Johnson. I think he's severely underrated. Doesn't get as much love outside of the USA as he deserves. He's very talented. Our defense is shaky, and he's probably our best defender and is very good on the attack. Doesn't score a lot but he can provide very well. He made the second goal happen with that pass through the legs.
I'll look when I get the chance, I hope you watched the USA vs Slovenia game, that was actually very entertaining.
Johansson showed real raw talent, with more caps he'll start figuring out where to make his runs and how to work with Altidore, and he's only 22 so he definitely has time. And like you said, Brooks will get there, he's definitely gonna have to wait to get some time though with Gonzalez and Besler playing the way they do. Plus Klinnsman couldn't praise Goodson enough for his performance during the gold cup. Either way, the US definitley proved they have some skillful youth coming up.
Johannson, Luis Gil, Brooks, Shea, Corona, Villarreal, Gatt, Diskerud, McInerney, hell even Altidore. All of them are under 23. So I'm very excited for the future of US soccer, especially how in form we are right now.
I believe it is. Dzeko's header was awesome vs us. Like I said to you as well, we're also scoring 4-6 goals on average every game. There's about 3 games where we didn't out of 12. And I mean that Landon Donovan has 56 goals and 57 assists for his country. No other player in history has over Both 50 goals and 50 assists. Also in 74% of games he has played he's contributed to a goal. That's damn good.
One of the last years where the U.S. team still had character and played decent. Good and exciting game good win for the USA
Que opinas de Altidore?
That's not true. USA was good all the way up to 2016 Copa America where they finished in 4th place. After that they just fell apart
Fortunately, our extremely good performances, rise in the rankings, and legendary coach have all given us leverage among these dual nationals. We really really really need to do well in the WC as a point to these Americans that get tempted by other teams.
You're dead on. BIH mistook me saying Mexico is a good team for something else, but I did clear up that Mexico are having issues. I think it's confidence, the media, the pressure, the coach, and you're right about the fans.
haha I'll take a look. I'm hoping you watched the USA vs Slovenia one that I sent you, that's actually a very well made video and brought me back shivers after watching it.
Bradley and altidore were boss that game. It's becoming a regular thing for altidore, but Bradley is always The General every game. Bradley is so underrated, he makes world class passes look so easy and he is tidy defensively. he always controls the tempo of the game. We were missing some of our key players, this isn't the Eleven for Brazil, but we beat this class team anyway, and I'm happy. can't wait to see Altidore and Bradley in Brazil. And I hope Shea, Diskerud, Johannson make it to Brazil.
hahaha he's probably our 4th best field player. However, it showed when we were missing him for most of Costa Rica due to injury. It also showed how good Bradley is because we missed him dearly. It showed how bad we need both players.
Some of our players are just over 20 years and had their first NT game, just putting that out there.
Greets from America.
Michael Bradley played very smart in the middle field, all the goals are Bradley's participation.
Man, this is fun to watch.
hahaha he caught your attention did he not?? He is our 23 year old striker who scored 31 goals last year in the Eredevisie. He's now playing in the Premiere League so all of us Americans are hopeful.
I just happen to read your comment and I want to tell you that the US was also using quite a few brand new players who have never played for the team and many of our starters were not playing when we faced you guys. So I say we were even. Please don't take my comment the wrong way I just wanted to point that mistake out. Hope we meet in Brazil to see our full A squads battle it out. Good luck with qualifying :)
All I'm gonna say, we destroyed you first half, and our coach took off our good players to prevent injuries for the upcoming Slovakia games ins September for the World Cup qualification. Good game USA, well done. Altidore is a beast.
I love seeing this usa squad because they now have such fluid movements that you thought you could only see in teams like england, russia, or even spain.
positively surprised by the us team, good game guys :)
Volim te Bosno :D
and this comment was going more in depth about it showing you that it's not just because he plays in CONCACAF. Seriously, how can you not clap your hands at that statistic. He deserves it.
Were gonna meet again in march in st Louis for a friendly...cant wait!!!
well said, that was ridiculously rude of that guy. That was a great game, greetings from America :)
I'd say Gonzalez and Besler are really solid, we haven't seen that team go up against anyone serious yet. They're just now being used in the last year or 2, I think they can be really good if they play together a bit more.
Well Done !! Bosnia sometimes can be a tough challange. grtz from the netherlands!
Jozy Altidore! Pure Legend.
that first goal was a gift.
Enjoyed the lovely combination play at 6:11. Almost tiki taka with Bradley swimming over like that to get that ball and draw the midfield closer together to spring him out. Very lovely play indeed.
I'm glad you think so, I think Donovan and Dzeko would cause a living hell for everyone as Donovan is an elite crosser and Dzeko is tall and a stud of a finisher. Okay, I didn't know a lot about your defenders I just assumed they were all better except for Fabian Johnson. He plays for Hoffenheim in Germany, he's our best defender but often we deploy him as a LM because he's so good there. Very well rounded player. He set up Jozy's first goal in this game with that through the leg pass.
Its Altidore, just thought I'd clear it up :) Like I said, we both expirimented, we did what friendlies were supposed to do. Yes, you had a CB pairing that doesn't have chemistry but ours didn't either. Brooks has no chemistry with Cameron as Brooks has never played for us. Cameron is also not a CB either. But we played a great game and it was very entertaining. Dzeko and Ibisevic are great players
a lot of that is a credit to the players such as Michael Bradley, Jozy Altidore, Landon Donovan and Clint Dempsey, but most of that is credit to the coach Jurgen Klinsmann. We had no idea that we could play this well. He came in and said "we're going to play attacking soccer" and we said "we're not good enough to"... we were wrong. A lot of those players out there were players that pulled off that style without being one of our best, and so that credit goes to the coach.
Quality of players isn't everything. Confidence and chemistry is also included. Thank you for actually giving credit to 5 of our players. To be honest, nobody will know if Donovan is world class, he probably should have been (2002 best young player of WC) but he never went to Europe full time. However, he does put the team on his back in more ways than one. Always has. Here's an example: /watch?v=UXbgfW4b3Tw. He does that all the time. 56 goals, 57 assists. We don't consider him elite though.
The Bosnia coach knew that US had one step ahead of them in this game. No nation ever took pre-WC international friendly game for granted. The sold out crowd in this stadium spoke the volume and finally the winner took it all. For what I saw in this video and other US soccer games of 2013, I can assure anyone that US is one of the top teams to watch in WC 2014. US had been struggling to got their place in Men's WC and they will surely get there any time soon just like Spain did in 2010 WC.
johansson impressed me. Brooks with some more caps will be solid in the back, his inexperience definitely showed in the two dzeko goals. Johansson seemed class though.
so congratulations, I hear you guys qualified for your first World Cup! Well done!
So I'm extremely new to the World Cup and how it works, so far from little research I understand that there are 32 teams that play in the world cup that starts this summer. What's happening now is the qualifying rounds right? Could anyone tell me how MNT is doing and what we need to do to get in the gifted 32?
Are u from USA ? you are miles away still to learn about this the best game!
Wesleyt105. Former yugoslavia almost always made it to the world cup. While the US not so much, and a country with 4million people only Bosnia made it into Europe's 9 qualifying teams thats amazing. Im not ragging on the States, but they just lately started catching up in soccer with other countries.
the fourth goal is lovely to watch.
Michael Bradley is the future captain, he was the hands on fan favorite to win it but Klinsmann gave it to Clint Dempsey because he wanted the team to emulate Clint's "never die, never feel inferior, continuously fight to the death" attitude, and hey, I agree with it. That was a smart captaincy move.
Did you watch the 50 second highlight reel I showed you? Bradley does that to anyone with ease. That was against Brazil and he did it numerous times. That was Brazil's starting defense too with Thiago Silva featuring, who had an incredible save vs Clint Dempsey I might add.
We have won 5 gold cups not 1.Got runners-up in the 2009 Confederations Cup. We made it to Round of 16 in the 1994 and 2010 WC. We made it to the Quarters in 2002. And our team has greatly improved from the team that played in the 2010 WC.
Jozy is Awesome
bradley won the africa nations cup with egypt thus he is a great coach better than any one of greece. also having klinsmann as our coach means that usmnt was attractive to him and us soccer had the money and ability to make a contract with him
Oh my goodness..Donovan is the best American ever. He's the only player ever in the world to have more than 50 goals and 50 assists. Currently, he's never played better. His little break actually improved him. AC Milan just placed a bid for him, that shows he's still very good. He's still super fast, he's still an elite passer and his goal scoring ability is still excellent. I already explained Dempsey's accolades to you. Most of our A team wasn't there, and we had 2 new guys. Just give credit
oh come on, you were saying that I only commend 5 players, so I gave another one credit. Fabian Johnson has performed very well for the United States. I don't follow his Bundesliga team but I know for the United States there are not many Americans that would want the guy benched. I'm giving him credit when you stated that I only commend 5 players on our team. He deserves credit in my opinion. If you think Burekic is important, than you're free to give him credit too.
esta muy buena todas las publicaciones
Wow Jozy is getting really good
There are eleven wally on the field hahaha, one big salve from brazil/brasil. I hope to see you playing in my city, Curitiba, next year.
JOZY IS THE MAN.
Actually yes, I love highlights. For having two players who have never played together as CB's, and one of them was brand new and the other one is a LB and not a CB, Bradley did a damn good job at stopping you guys in his CDM position. On top of that, he created a lot of chances. Also, he was playing CDM in this game when he did this: /watch?v=3Hp2E6DdIvk . Also Landon Donovan had a hattrick that game and an assist. Unfortunately there's really only recent highlights of American players :(
oh, well I'm glad you think so :) At first I thought you were kidding but I see you're serious! I'm glad, I do think that team would be great too! It fixes, in my opinion, most of the weak spots making the team very formidable. And there's so many attacking threats, (especially as Donovan is an elite crosser and Dzeko is tall and a great poacher/header, they'd combine so well) I think they'd be very worrisome!
now one guy that easily could play it and immediately be elite is Larry Fitzgerald at Goalkeeper. That guy catches everything. His skills would translate immensely
Not too long ago, every stadium was like that for soccer. That just shows you the massive improvement we're getting overall, including the stadiums and the fan base. This sport wouldn't make our sports channel network at all (hence the very few highlights of American players even 5 years ago) but now it's making it all of the time. 2010 was a pivotal year for Americans haha. It's become quite popular with the youth and is consistently making highlights on the sports channel.
It happens and I agree with you about Costa Rica,they def have talented players as well...Bosnia is better than Slovakia but they played better than we did yesterday and they actually deserved the win..good luck to the us in the qualifiers,hope they make it to Brazil and amaze some people
Absolutely, it's scary what happens now that our amazing athletic methodology that has kept us at least competing with the world has talent to back it up. Never die is exactly the American way. And that was showed last night