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U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati named Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach of the U.S. Men’s National Team on July 29, 2011, making him the 35th coach in the history of the program. Klinsmann has been involved in soccer almost his entire life as a player, coach, television analyst and consultant. As a player, Klinsmann was one of the game’s premier forwards and enjoyed a 17-year career that included stints in four major European leagues for a number of clubs, including VfB Stuttgart, Inter Milan, AS Monaco, Tottenham Hotspur and Bayern Munich. One of the most well-known international players of all-time, he earned 108 appearances for Germany and scored 47 goals while helping the team win the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy and the 1996 European Championship.
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 Juergen Klinsmann puts U.S. soccer on fast trackReporting from Glendale, Ariz. -- Hey, America, Juergen Klinsmann has a message for you: You've fallen behind the rest of the world in soccer.
Way behind.
"Oh, yeah," he says, sighing. "There is still a lot of catching up to do."
And the only way to do that, he says, is to move fast. Really, really fast. So earlier this month Klinsmann opened his first winter camp as coach of the U.S. national team with an eight-day stay at a state-of-the-art training facility in Phoenix, where players had their blood analyzed, their aerobic capacity measured, their strength tested and their eating habits digested — but rarely saw a soccer ball.
It's an admittedly European approach in which training days, part laboratory and part labor, last as long as 13 hours and encompass as many as three exhausting workouts. Yet it's one Klinsmann hopes will fundamentally redefine the way Americans play the game.
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