Monday, June 9, 2008
More quotes from USA v Argentina, June 8th, 2008
Bob Bradley on if Freddy Adu is close to becoming a regular with the US Men's team.
Freddy's growing. We see everything, so we see the things, the moments that are special. When Freddy has the ball in the attacking half of the field, he’s capable for doing some great things. But we’re also making sure that he understands that there’s more to the game than that. When he comes into the national team, he understands that when he walks in that door, nothing that has been said about him, written about him, means anything. The only thing that matters now is that he can show the rest of these guys that when the games get very hard, that he can help our team be successful. And he understands that. That part of what he’s also learning when he goes to Portugal and his club team. So you see a young man growing, learning, handles himself a little bit different than he did probably a year ago, and now we need to just need to keep this going. Some days it may mean a lot of playing time, but we have to see. We feel like when we talk about our group, and our trust. We have so many different kind of players. We’ve talked about some of the experienced guys [earlier in this press conference], we have young guys that have played different roles. And we just try to establish that for all of them, we are working together. We have a big goal in the end. There’s a lot of steps along the way, and everybody has to commit and be humble, shut the rest of it out, and show people on the inside that you can help make this thing better. And for us, Freddy is no different than the rest, and that’s important.
We still know that the progress with Freddy… It’s got to go at the right speed. It can’t be accelerated unless it’s earned the right way.
Landon Donovan on the match in general
We had some chances to win the game, but I think all-in-all we can’t be disappointed with that result.
On where the team stands
We hope we learned a lot. It would have been nice to score a goal in these three games, but I think the adjustment tonight from the first half to the second.
Freddy's growing. We see everything, so we see the things, the moments that are special. When Freddy has the ball in the attacking half of the field, he’s capable for doing some great things. But we’re also making sure that he understands that there’s more to the game than that. When he comes into the national team, he understands that when he walks in that door, nothing that has been said about him, written about him, means anything. The only thing that matters now is that he can show the rest of these guys that when the games get very hard, that he can help our team be successful. And he understands that. That part of what he’s also learning when he goes to Portugal and his club team. So you see a young man growing, learning, handles himself a little bit different than he did probably a year ago, and now we need to just need to keep this going. Some days it may mean a lot of playing time, but we have to see. We feel like when we talk about our group, and our trust. We have so many different kind of players. We’ve talked about some of the experienced guys [earlier in this press conference], we have young guys that have played different roles. And we just try to establish that for all of them, we are working together. We have a big goal in the end. There’s a lot of steps along the way, and everybody has to commit and be humble, shut the rest of it out, and show people on the inside that you can help make this thing better. And for us, Freddy is no different than the rest, and that’s important.
We still know that the progress with Freddy… It’s got to go at the right speed. It can’t be accelerated unless it’s earned the right way.
Landon Donovan on the match in general
We had some chances to win the game, but I think all-in-all we can’t be disappointed with that result.
On where the team stands
We hope we learned a lot. It would have been nice to score a goal in these three games, but I think the adjustment tonight from the first half to the second.
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