Good interview here @ 28:45. http://www.bluecityradio.com/?p=407
Patrick Vieira Appointed As NYCFC Coach
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Interesting that the only NYCFC player quotes come from Mikey Lopez. The culture (or even rules) about not talking to the press is really strong in this club.
Also, the quote from Man City EDS graduate Kean Bryan definitely fits with what we have heard, seen and surmised. "That was how Patrick worked, he was a born winner, and he tried to get that into a lot of the lads that you can't lose on the training pitch and expect it to be ok. He wanted that winning mentality to be in you so it came out on a Saturday when you're playing."
Bryan is on loan at Oldham Athletic from MCFC. I'm surprised he talked.
My only beef with PV is he’s skiddish when closing out games. Whether it’s a 2 goal lead or 1 we never play the same way for 90 minutes.
We should continue playing possession football with a lead going into the final quarter of a game rather than bunker and give the ball to the opposition. That’ll never sit well with me. If that’s done on purpose every time because it’s how he wants to play I don’t agree with it. If it’s because he doesn’t have faith in his players to not make mistakes and give up counters then I still don’t agree with it.
Actually I do have another beef. It took us way too long to get past the NE press. He waited until halftime when we were already a goal down, due to not being able to beat the press, to finally make an adjustment. He pushed both of the fullbacks up and gave the midfield an added outlet moving forward. Nearly the entire first half our Fullbacks were sitting as deep as our CB’s while we attempted to pass our way out and then finally went back to SJ and he booted it back to NE.
We should continue playing possession football with a lead going into the final quarter of a game rather than bunker and give the ball to the opposition. That’ll never sit well with me. If that’s done on purpose every time because it’s how he wants to play I don’t agree with it. If it’s because he doesn’t have faith in his players to not make mistakes and give up counters then I still don’t agree with it.
Actually I do have another beef. It took us way too long to get past the NE press. He waited until halftime when we were already a goal down, due to not being able to beat the press, to finally make an adjustment. He pushed both of the fullbacks up and gave the midfield an added outlet moving forward. Nearly the entire first half our Fullbacks were sitting as deep as our CB’s while we attempted to pass our way out and then finally went back to SJ and he booted it back to NE.
I like this post. But it's like a team playing prevent defense. Sometimes you need to keep your foot on the accelerator. I think we close out games better when we burn them off with possession.
And it’s like....
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How's Vieira's Spanish?
Passable, by way of Italian, IIRC
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Can only imagine what a Frenchman's Italianized Spanish must sound like. Does he speak it with the guys in training? Seems like I've only heard him shouting in English during games.
i think in one of the "behind the scenes" videos vs red bulls i heard him speak some french to chanot right before the start of the game
apparently he communicated with maxi in french/ italian since maxi spoke those languages
This may explain why Maxi never shot last year - Vieira’s butchered translation of “shoot every chance you get when 1v1” was understood by Maxi to be “never shoot unless the net is open”. The off-season had PV practicing with the Rosetta Stone.
I think what he did at NE was intentional we didn't get past the press because that wasn't PVs objective in the first half. More this year than ever PV seems to approach teams that press as an opportunity to let them tire themselves out. He wants them to chase our possession even if that means we just kick it around for 45 min in our own half. I agree with you that it's tough to watch and feels dangerous but I think it was entirely intentional as opposed to a delayed shift in tactics to solve something that wasn't working. The approach hasn't cost us a game yet and we all know PV stubbornly likes to stick with things so I bet we see more of it which will be terrifying against RBNJ.
Off topic, but I think Villa and Pirlo taking English classes in the City with random people was one of the best stories about the Club.
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He probably thinks it means, “the league of major soccer,” rather than, “the major league soccer.” He does that with words and phrases.
And 1 Quite Really High. Maybe it was in anticipation of the upcoming 420
