{"id":13099,"date":"2016-11-30T12:46:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T17:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=13099"},"modified":"2016-11-30T12:46:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T17:46:49","slug":"u-s-mens-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=13099","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Mens soccer&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.after the debacle a couple of weeks back where the US lost to Mexico and Costa Rica in world cup qualifying, a change was finally made at manager when Jurgen Klinsmann was fired&#8230;and I say not a moment too soon. But, who do they bring back to lead the team? The guy they fired to bring in Klinsmann, Bruce Arena. Now, I was never a fan of Klinsmann, who seemed to be a whiner and could turn good performances into losses with his changes to the setup of the team&#8230;.but, how much will a management change do when you have the same players in place? I mean, there are only three players on the team who are good enough to play in the elite European leagues&#8230;so there is little talent to choose from and that makes the rating of 29th in the world sound just about right.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure what Arena can do, but I am sure he will be better than Klinsmann&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.after the debacle a couple of weeks back where the US lost to Mexico and Costa Rica in world cup qualifying, a change was finally made at manager when Jurgen Klinsmann was fired&#8230;and I say not a moment too soon. But, who do they bring back to lead the team? The guy they fired to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=13099\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. Mens soccer&#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1498],"class_list":["post-13099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-usmnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13100,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099\/revisions\/13100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}