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Abby Wambach was a one-dimensional player who used her physical strength to make up for any actual talent on the pitch.  She also sabotaged her managers and thought she was always above the team to the detriment of the actual play on the field.  However she is looked upon as one of the best soccer players, female or male, in us soccer history.

She is also a jackass.  While speaking on the Bill Simmons podcast, the idiot had this to say:

“Oh man … I would definitely fire Jurgen,” Wambach said. “Sorry Sunil (Gulati), sorry U.S. Soccer, but I don’t think that Jürgen and the litmus test on him has worked.”

“First of all, (Klinsmann) hasn’t really focused, I feel like, enough attention on the youth programs. He says he has, I don’t think that he has. Also the way that he has changed and brought in a bunch of these foreign guys is just not something that I believe in wholeheartedly.

“I don’t believe in it in my heart. I love Jermaine Jones, I love watching him play, and I love Fabian Johnson, but I just think that this experiment that U.S. Soccer has given Jurgen, just isn’t one that, personally, I’m into.”

Of course the male considered to be the best player in US soccer history also happens to be a jackass.  Landon Donovan backed her up by saying this:

“Jurgen, I understand you’re allowed to make your choice and your decision, but there’s at least a few players that are on your World Cup roster that are going that don’t care in the same way I do. I grew up as a part of this whole system, and I feel like it is a part of me, and I think there’s players in that locker room who, if you go three-and-out in the World Cup, they’ll go back to their clubs teams and won’t even blink twice. Whereas, if we go three and out, I’ll be devastated.”

“I wouldn’t feel as good about it if we had a team full of players that didn’t really grow up or really identify as being American,” he added. “It’s nothing against them. I mean, Fabian Johnson is as good of a player maybe in the Bundesliga right now, and I love him and he’s a nice kid. I love Jermaine (Jones)…and they’re good teammates. I like having them on the team, but if we had a team full of players like that, it just wouldn’t feel the same as if we developed a team that then went on and won a World Cup.”

This asshole is the same person that once took this picture:

At least one player in US soccer has some sense.  

Mix Diskerud, the American midfielder who happened to be born in Norway, responded to Wambach’s comments on his twitter:

Wow Abby, I guess there are pros and cons in limiting the base for selection. You have just singled out a few of us. But why? Why are we your single oddballs? Think about who you try to disenfranchise. Because if you see us as the group to disenfranchise, then at least let it be known who we are. Stats and history will show - “our group” has more than others produced volunteer and defending soldiers for what, by us, is willingly chosen and gathered to be worth protecting: Your nation. Wish you would accept it as ours too. I know we’re not quite equal. From “your group of people” the country’s Commander in Chief need to be selected. However, other than that - you and I share something not unique, but constitutionally earned, a birthright to defend this nation as an American. Wherever we go. Led by whoever has earned, by democratic process, his/her right to lead, on or off the field, in peace, in war, in practice, or in any other kind of pursuit of your happiness. Enjoy your retirement. But stay active. We all need you. Oddballs or not. Mix

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