Congratulations on going as far as you did. I was absolutely amazed with you beating Italy since you basically played with 10 men the entire game and it caught up with you in the final. After seeing you play Germany & Ireland like you did, it was an absolute shiter of the bed on the executives behalf in the playoffs.
The 49 year-old looked exactly his age playing with and against 20 year-olds. He was completely out of place - geriatricly slow and never touched the ball, even as a central midfielder. I am absolutely amazed that no one said anything. It was, in all due respect, I repeat, in all due respect, the absolutely worst coaching fcuk-up/favourtism I have ever seen in a competetive soccer game. Here you have a 21 year-old VMSL Premier player sitting on the bench, along with other young players, watching this useless, relatively old man trying to play soccer. If they had any shread of self-respect they would not come back to play again.
Can anyone give me a 1/4 decent reason why he played over any one of the guys on the bench? At least the young guys could run. Please don't give me the excuse that he can play a position better than the kids - put a damn pylon there.
WAB,
I am not going to get into the decision that a coach makes about who should be playing and who shouldn't, because as you well know you will have one coach that thinks someone is the good player and another who thinks that you shouldn't even be on the park, it is about individual perspective.
It seems to be a trend these days with the younger kids that when they don't get something they run to mommy who is going to fix something, in this case happened to be some of the Sapperton guys on the sideline to bitch and complain about how he isn't playing and how much better he is then others.
Should this player not be mature enough being 21 to speak to the coach or team captian about what he can do so that he can get on the park or maybe just wait out is opportunity to come and when it does take it and show the coach that he was wrong by not playing him sooner.
It tells others a lot about his character and his maturity to deal with the situation the way he did.
Cheers
JB
P.S. What premier team did this player play on last year?