How Can Jurgen Klinsmann Build More Faith in the US Men’s Team?

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Published: May 6, 2013

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Coming off a four-point effort in their last two World Cup qualifiers, it would be easy to think that all is well for the United States men’s national team. But a number of questions still linger, buoyed by the U.S.’ poor performance against Honduras to open up the hexagonal, the U.S.’ struggles in the semifinal round of World Cup qualifying, a lack of offensive production and questionable decision-making by U.S. manager Jurgen Klinsmann.

So, what can be done to shake off lingering doubts about Klinsmann’s leadership and put the U.S. on a solid footing heading into this summer?

Here are four ideas.

 

Consistency

In Klinsmann’s 24 games in charge, he has put 24 different starting lineups out on the field for the U.S., changed the team’s formation at least six times and normally raises eyebrows with his roster selections by both who is included and who is left out.

To an extent, some of this is understandable. Klinsmann has been limited, at times, in who can be called in due to injuries. He was obviously experimenting, as he should have, with the formation in his first games in charge of the U.S. And, he has, for the most part, stuck to his strategy of calling in players who are currently in good form with their clubs.



However, Klinsmann’s decisions about the lineup, the formation and the roster have always had a haphazard, piecemeal, random feel to them.

Klinsmann is always willing to try to justify his decisions, but his lack of organization or any clearly coherent thought process has been the focus of much criticism. Most recently, those complaints were voiced by the players themselves, if anonymously, in Brian Strauss’ piece for the Sporting News, which came out before the team’s March World Cup qualifiers.

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