If his history of analysis is an indicator, he's also stuck not being very bright and myopic.
NYCFC In The Media Thread - 2016
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have you read his previous years "previews" i wanted to know how good he is in predicting.
i used to follow him on twitter but his graphs and analysis at times felt unnecessarily complicated. or just say things just to say it
The league is changing as better quality players are coming in. It's moving away from the counter and heading towards traditional football. They can't see that NYCFC will be setting the tone.
Haven't read previous years preseason stuff, and I only read a bit last season until I realized I wasn't getting anything out of it. Any analyis from the MLS website has to be taken with an entire shaker of salt because it's an in-house shill source.
While this doesn't ALWAYS work, in soccer, sometimes overwhelming possession and lack of turnovers is as good as having that destroyer in the 6 role everyone always slobbers over.
I agree that we don't have a player like Dax McCarty in front of our backline. But RBNY doesn't have a creative player like Pirlo there.
What I've found with MLS is that two very good CBs allow the rest of the team to push up the field. Expecting huge things from Brillant this season.
On a non-related note, not thrilled at all with how Van Damme has played for LAG. I thought he looked awful the past two weeks.
I agree that we don't have a player like Dax McCarty in front of our backline. But RBNY doesn't have a creative player like Pirlo there.
What I've found with MLS is that two very good CBs allow the rest of the team to push up the field. Expecting huge things from Brillant this season.
On a non-related note, not thrilled at all with how Van Damme has played for LAG. I thought he looked awful the past two weeks.
i only saw the concacaf games vs santos....but its like he was somehow involved in all four goals conceded......and he got beaten by martin bravo ( hes a liga mx journey man that was never known for being the fastest) that was bad
I thought he looked good in the first game, but obviously, he was terrible in the return.
I know he pretty much nailed the playoff teams last year from his preview. His stuff is usually good, but he does tend to overplay some narratives at times.
I just think it's lazy to not consider all the roster changes and just say:
-meh, their defense sucks (or is new which means it sucks)
-Pirlo can't play the 6
-foreign managers suck
Or any other narrative that is repeated over again.
I can't ever tell if people actually make intelligent predictions of our season or if they're saying we're going to be teh worstest team evar because they don't like us.
It's always going to be the latter. This team was hated the day it was announced.
I want to win a title asap so then they actually have a reason to not like us
Not to mention we fired "the chosen one" after one season. Add more fuel to the fire for all of these legacy MLS guys. Can't wait to see Viera prove them wrong this year!
He's been getting a lot of press and I love it. It will only enhance our chances to keep landing huge DP's in the future.
To the Trolls, he's the Chosen One.... To the enlightened few....er, blue.... he's just the Anti-Kreis....Kreis is the "chosen one"?......
Two articles in 3 days from the Post.......think I'm gonna pass out!
http://nypost.com/2016/03/06/nycfc-preview-will-new-coach-engineer-2nd-season-rebound/
Oh, btw, as long as I'm at it, allow me to once again start a beg-a-thon for people to take a few minutes to drop a short email (in this case Brian Lewis) and let him know we appreciate the coverage.
As I mentioned last year, I know there are writers who love the game and would like to give it more coverage in their papers, but it's a struggle. The only way editors will get the message that there are a ton of soccer fans out there is to provide feedback. It only takes a couple of minutes. Just do it (with apologies to Nike )
http://nypost.com/2016/03/06/nycfc-preview-will-new-coach-engineer-2nd-season-rebound/
Oh, btw, as long as I'm at it, allow me to once again start a beg-a-thon for people to take a few minutes to drop a short email (in this case Brian Lewis) and let him know we appreciate the coverage.
As I mentioned last year, I know there are writers who love the game and would like to give it more coverage in their papers, but it's a struggle. The only way editors will get the message that there are a ton of soccer fans out there is to provide feedback. It only takes a couple of minutes. Just do it (with apologies to Nike
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WE MADE THE POST'S PAGE SIX!
http://pagesix.com/2016/03/06/soccer-star-andrea-pirlo-enjoys-wine-with-friends/
http://pagesix.com/2016/03/06/soccer-star-andrea-pirlo-enjoys-wine-with-friends/
Nice, but I'm more glad we made the sports page:
http://nypost.com/2016/03/06/nycfc-outlasts-fire-in-opening-match-goal-spree/
I also wish the game story was more obviously longer than the Page 6 item, but news is news I guess.
Daily News is running an AP story online.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/s...nning-start-nycfc-tops-fire-article-1.2554765
So does the Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/07/sports/soccer/mls-roundup.html?ref=sports&_r=0
Esquire interviews El Capitan!
http://www.esquire.com/sports/interviews/a42697/david-villa-interview/
http://www.esquire.com/sports/interviews/a42697/david-villa-interview/
