After a 2-1 defeat at Home Depot Center, New York Red Bulls has ended a very difficult 2011 season. We hope to see the technical team go further faster when they return in 2012. As far as Thierry Henry, we all hoped for him to raise the MLS Cup, but we learn how difficult and challenging any activity in the USA is. We hope for the team to present various categories of improvement for the next season:
The mental game
Several players need to improve as far as passing the ball correctly, avoiding unnecessary penalty kicks, making other players comfortable, avoiding excessive complaints with the referee, and learning to get along in the best possible way. Working with mixed emotions, such as the desire to win vs. the anger produced by a bad, compromising pass from a peer and lead to mental errors, as it happened a couple of times. Using mental intelligence accordingly could prevent unnecessary penalties as in the Beckham's call for a penalty from Miller, which finally occurred. Heart Playing and Motivation
Many games were played at full speed, while in some games the team looked unmotivated and letargic.Strategic Planning
The Technical team lead by Hans Backe needs to assess their opportunities and revise the lack of consistency by sector, meaning the goal keeping team, the defense, the midfielders, and the attack, and how they all come together as a team.
Thirst for Winning
There is a need to attain for wins than just 11 wins in 37 games played, and 10 out of 34 in the regular season. My English means suggests that an outstanding team makes at least half of the points disputed in the season in any tournament.
Mixing Expertise with Youth
The interaction of seniors players, such as Thierry Henry, Joel Lindpere, Jan Gunner Solli and Frank Rost, and Bouna Condoul among others, with young players like Juan Agudelo, Corey Hertzog, Alex Howarth, and others, can lead to better playing.Improving Reserves
Having good reserves means not only building the team of the future, but also have good players ready to play in emergency scenarios.Double Teams
Having so may international players members of their respective national teams makes it a requirement to have a significantly good player to replace that player when called by his national team at any time. This was fundamentally a key factor in poor team results for about two thirds of the 2011 season. While replacement players were good, their coupling and cohesion by sector and with the entire team, just lead to many ties and just a few wins.Many trade changes made in a short time also affected the team continuous integration.
After losing my iPhone 3GS at Red Bull Arena, my team also lost its ability to win. Every time I recorded a prelude to a win, it actually happened. I hope that someone some time returns it to me. So I hope I continue to record other "pre-game preludes to a win" in the same way next year.
Please send me email at anthonydnoriega@gmail.com on how to improve this blog for the 2012 season.
Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Holidays to all!
