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oh i just edited my post to add nuance (or not: "classic german arrogance" lol). maybe detail not nuance.

i'd bring bielsa here to run the academies, not to manage the national team.

part of what he did in chile is because the south american style is already based on passing and skill. so he added running and physicality and pressing to it (possible only after the era of malnutrition, smoking and alcoholism ended).

but as long as american kids are taugh to kick & run they'll continue to be clumsy. clumsy doesn't win games. even a good counterattacking game requires high skill (e.g. griezmann's dribbling or pirlo's passes and of course defending)

pulisic's croatian father took him back to germany when he was... 7? or something? anyway. yes. schooling does it.