RE: [nas] Wynalda's comments on Yallop

> For success we need to 
> develop unrefined talent, something Klinsmann didn't need to 
> do with Germany.

I don't know that any national team coach will be developing talent.
Players aren't with their national team coach enough.  This will happen
more with club teams (like Yallop has done) who's coaches are able to
pick out raw talent and mold them into a legit starter and an eventual
national team player.  Yallop did this with Ching, De Rosario, and
Mullan to an extent.  Cannon and Barrett have been on the cusp of being
in the player pool so you can say he helped refine them too (though I
think Brian Quinn, who also had an eye for talent, was responsible for
drafting them).

As for Yallop being US National Team caliber, I just don't see him in
the same boat as Klinsmann.  This sounds weird, but I trust Yallop more
with a club side and I trust Klinsmann more with a national side.  Why?
I trust Yallop more than Klinsmann in running a club side because Yallop
has proven that he can identify and nurture talent, whereas Klinsmann
has not (at least not in any public way with a club team).  But I would
say that I trust Klinsmann more with a national side than Yallop because
of the track record of each.  No, I don't want to get into the
"Klinsmann Debate" again, I've talked that one to death.  But, a
national gig doesn't require the same development of talent, so that
does not work against Klinsmann; and if I think of Yallop being put in
Klinsmann's position as coach of Germany, would he have had the same
success?  I don't see it, though Klinsmann probably wouldn't see any
more success at Canada than Yallop did.

In order for the US to be a success in the LONG run, we do need someone
at a lower level who can develop talent and improve things on a system
wide level.  In the short run, we need someone who can re-ignite the
team concept (something I think Klinsmann AND Yallop are capable of) and
we need someone to solve Donovan as a head case (something that Yallop
too had trouble with in San Jose).  With Claudio gone and aparently no
one of Donovan's equal or better, the Donovan situation needs urgently
to be fixed or we'll likely continue to take steps backwards, regardless
of who is coach.

Darrin

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