Ahead of her last international match for the U.S. women's team, Abby Wambach hasn't pulled any punches in her assessment of the current state of the men's game.
And if you're U.S. national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann, best look away now.
"Oh, man... I would definitely fire Jurgen (Klinsmann)," Wambach told The Bill Simmons podcast.
She questioned whether enough young American players were coming through the U.S. soccer system and whether Jermaine Jones and Fabian Johnson, who were born in Germany, should have been picked to play for the USMNT.
"First of all, Klinsmann hasn't really focused, I feel like, enough attention on the youth programs. He says he has, I don't think that he has," said Wambach, who has 184 goals in 252 caps, ahead of her swansong against China Wednesday.
"I also believe that the way he has changed and brought in a bunch of these foreign guys is just not something that I believe in wholeheartedly."
Klinsmann won the World Cup with Germany as a player in 1990 and also coached his country before being hired by U.S. Soccer in 2011.
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
'I'd fire Jurgen Klinsmann'
Ahead of her last international match for the U.S. women's team, Abby Wambach hasn't pulled any punches in her assessment of the current state of the men's game.
And if you're U.S. national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann, best look away now.
"Oh, man... I would definitely fire Jurgen (Klinsmann)," Wambach told The Bill Simmons podcast.
She questioned whether enough young American players were coming through the U.S. soccer system and whether Jermaine Jones and Fabian Johnson, who were born in Germany, should have been picked to play for the USMNT.
"First of all, Klinsmann hasn't really focused, I feel like, enough attention on the youth programs. He says he has, I don't think that he has," said Wambach, who has 184 goals in 252 caps, ahead of her swansong against China Wednesday.
"I also believe that the way he has changed and brought in a bunch of these foreign guys is just not something that I believe in wholeheartedly."
Klinsmann won the World Cup with Germany as a player in 1990 and also coached his country before being hired by U.S. Soccer in 2011.
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