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What’s Wrong with US? Audiobook Summary

Every four years, Americans turn their attention to the world’s game–soccer. As recently as 1998, the USMNT merely made up the numbers at the biggest sporting tournament of all, but once Bruce Arena took over the team, American soccer started to find its footing. In the 2002 World Cup, a highly-fancied Portugal team, featuring the great Ronaldo, lost to Arena’s US team in a shock 3-2 victory, and but for a handball that wasn’t given, they could well have knocked off eventual winners Germany. But that quarter final appearance proved once and for all that the USMNT, like the women’s team before them, deserved to be considered a worthy opponent–and that’s all thanks to Bruce Arena.

When he took over the USMNT, Arena was already the most successful club team coach in US history, having led DC United to the first two championships of the fledgling MLS. Arena–known for his tactical acumen and no-nonsense approach to coaching–inspired and instilled just enough fear into his teams to make them overachieve. By 2016, however, the national team was in a funk–coach Jurgen Klinsmann had brought the team to near elimination during the qualifying rounds for Russia. Cue Arena’s return to the stage, and the team’s return to form.

Arena’s book will appear just as the team makes its final preparations for the World Cup, and at last fans will learn what makes this hugely successful coach tick. And the thousands of coaches around the country will turn to What’s Wrong With Us? to see exactly how they can instill Arena’s blueprint for success on their own bands of young players.

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What’s Wrong with US? Audiobook Narrator

Fred Sanders is the narrator of What’s Wrong with US? audiobook that was written by Bruce Arena

Bruce Arena is the winningest coach in US soccer history. As head coach at the University of Virginia, he led the Cavaliers to five ACC Tournament Championships and five National Championships. Arena first became the head coach of the US Men’s National Team in 1998, is the first coach in history to win three CONCACAF Gold Cups, and has coached teams to five MLS Cup championships. A member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame, Arena has thrice been named the MLS Coach of the Year, and in 2014 he received the Werner Fricker Builder Award, the highest honor that an individual can receive from the US Soccer Federation.

About the Author(s) of What’s Wrong with US?

Bruce Arena is the author of What’s Wrong with US?

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What’s Wrong with US? Full Details

Narrator Fred Sanders
Length 8 hours 50 minutes
Author Bruce Arena
Category
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date June 12, 2018
ISBN 9780062880574

Subjects

The publisher of the What’s Wrong with US? is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Sports

Additional info

The publisher of the What’s Wrong with US? is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062880574.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

John

July 08, 2018

I write this review as we are entering the Semi-Final stage of the 2018 World Cup, a tournament in which I am still disappointed the US did not participate. Having read most of the analysis as to why the US failed to qualify, I was excited to see Bruce Arena write this book to hear from the coaches own words on what went wrong not only in qualifying but also with the US program as a whole. While I gave this book 4 stars, to me it is really 3.5. My main issue is the title since it only touches upon the issues with the US men's national team problems without a great deal of depth and while it presents ideas, Arena really could have expanded on several points. If you want an autobiography of Bruce Arena's career, it is a very interesting and compelling book, taking the reader from Bruce's early years growing up as a lacrosse player and later coach to his stint as coach of the University of Virginia soccer team to his stints with MLS' DC United, the national team's relatively successful 2002 World Cup, to his days with the David Beckham era LA Galaxy, and back to the US national team's disastrous qualifying campaign. The majority of the book details his career in all of these instances and how he dealt with the challenges each situation presented. In these chapters, Arena does provide his thoughts on leadership, coaching philosophy, and ideas. In the chapters on his 2016 take over of the US team from Jurgen Klinsmann, he does provide several clues on why the US failed to qualify and beat or tie Trinidad and Tobago pointing out several factors ranging from the team's disorganization, fitness of some of the European based players, playing Costa Rica in New Jersey rather than a place with less foreign support, and finally field conditions in T & T. It’s in the final few chapters, he diagnoses problems with the US program with the main issues being lack of technical leadership in the US program and Major League Soccer’s focus on its business side more than US player development. He offers a checklist of what US soccer needs to do to move ahead and succeed on the international stage, some of which US soccer has already achieved. Its these chapters and this checklist that support the book’s title, but I felt Bruce could have expanded upon these ideas into a solid diagnosis on what is wrong with US. My feeling is he only scratched the surface on the issues and in this respect, it left me wanting more. Otherwise, it was not a bad read at all, it just did not fully accomplish what the title suggests.

John

November 08, 2018

Really enjoyed this book and read it in two days. I covered soccer for a newspaper for 23 years and covered D.C. United from day one. Arena was a great coach and good interview. He had his rough edges but he was fair and honest. It was interesting to read about the many jobs he had in the early years, even being a teacher in a school. Didn't know he was such a good lacrosse player.

Chad

July 03, 2018

Lucked into an ARC. Would’ve liked some more depth and explanation from the final few chapters. Also, comparisons to other national programs may have been helpful, despite the US’s geographic and population obstacles.

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