Federasi Sepak Bola AS (US Soccer) menghabiskan puluhan tahun mencari kekompakan. Mereka menemukan sesuatu yang lebih baik.
Selama bertahun-tahun Amerika Serikat berupaya menemukan identitas sepak bola tunggal. Namun, tim terbaiknya justru muncul dari beragam latar belakang, budaya, dan jalur pengembangan. Pada tahun 1993, Federasi Sepak Bola Amerika Serikat memberikan kontrak kepada Rinus Michels. Tetapi bapak pendiri Total Football asal Belanda, yang diwujudkan melalui sosoknya di lapangan, Johan Cruyff, tidak dipekerjakan untuk melatih tim nasional, atau untuk melatih…
For years the United States sought a single soccer identity. Instead, its best team emerged from a patchwork of backgrounds, cultures and development paths
In 1993, the United States Soccer Federation handed a contract to Rinus Michels. But the Dutch godfather of Total Football, operationalized through his on-field avatar Johan Cruyff, was not hired to coach the national team, or to coach anybody, really.
By this time, Michels, who managed the Los Angeles Aztecs of the North American Soccer League in 1979 and 1980, had already turned down the chance to manage the US men’s national team twice. Once, in 1983, when it would be entered, disastrously, into the NASL as Team America. And once more in 1991, when Bora Milutinović was appointed instead.
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