The United States had some tricky encounters during the recent January training camp held by manager Jurgen Klinsmann. The former Germany manager has dismissed concerns that his players have not been performing well since the World Cup.
He says that this was something natural given that most of them having given more than 100% during the tournament. Since the exit from the World Cup after extra time defeat by Belgium, the US has been able to get only two victories in the friendly matches against Czech Republic and Panama. The rest of the friendly matches have ended in disappointing defeats.
It does not bode well for the upcoming friendlies against Denmark and Switzerland. In fact, the US have lined up a number of friendlies between now and the start of the next major tournament. Klinsmann says that he is not worried about his team being unable to recapture the form that they showed during the World Cup. Klinsmann is confident that the team will be able to get back to their best ones the competitive matches come round the corner. The German has been criticised for introducing a number of German-American players into the team, but it has definitely been showing an effect with improved results when it matters the most.
“There was a natural drop by a lot of players because the World Cup, this biggest thing you can play in your career. So for whatever reason we had a drop in many areas and paid some results for that. I think we’re going to kind of come out of that little valley and pick it back up because obviously now we have another goal on the horizon with winning the Gold Cup, qualifying for the Confederations Cup in Russia in 2017 this is huge. And with the fact that we’re going to host Copa America in 2016,” said Klinsmann.
The United States had some tricky encounters during the recent January training camp held by manager Jurgen Klinsmann. The former Germany manager has dismissed concerns that his players have not been performing well since the World Cup.
He says that this was something natural given that most of them having given more than 100% during the tournament. Since the exit from the World Cup after extra time defeat by Belgium, the US has been able to get only two victories in the friendly matches against Czech Republic and Panama. The rest of the friendly matches have ended in disappointing defeats.
It does not bode well for the upcoming friendlies against Denmark and Switzerland. In fact, the US have lined up a number of friendlies between now and the start of the next major tournament. Klinsmann says that he is not worried about his team being unable to recapture the form that they showed during the World Cup. Klinsmann is confident that the team will be able to get back to their best ones the competitive matches come round the corner. The German has been criticised for introducing a number of German-American players into the team, but it has definitely been showing an effect with improved results when it matters the most.
“There was a natural drop by a lot of players because the World Cup, this biggest thing you can play in your career. So for whatever reason we had a drop in many areas and paid some results for that. I think we’re going to kind of come out of that little valley and pick it back up because obviously now we have another goal on the horizon with winning the Gold Cup, qualifying for the Confederations Cup in Russia in 2017 this is huge. And with the fact that we’re going to host Copa America in 2016,” said Klinsmann.