PST: Is Velasquez, not Klinsmann,?the problem?

Kyle Martino may really onto something with his take on what?s happening inside the U.S. national team, with the fissures that have developed and that became so very public last week.

NBC?s lead soccer analyst wonders if the problems with communication and lurching progress on the new regime?s tactical initiatives are more about Klinsmann?s staff, less about the coach himself?

Specifically, Martino believes assistant coach Martin Vasquez (pictured), a longtime Klinsmann confidante, is ?in over his head.?

Martino spent several days around the team?s practices in January as Klinsmann and his staff ran a month-long camp. Martino said he saw some of the same things once stated publicly by standout German national teamer Philipp Lahm, whose 2011 autobiography included some critical passages on Klinsmann.

Martino believes some of the U.S. player complaints laid out in Brian Straus? powerful story last week ring true ? but not for the reasons some people might think.

What?s going on is this: Jurgen Klinsmann is a good coach. He?s the type of coach that is a motivator. He?s an icon. He?s a legend. He can get guys that want to jump over mountains. He?s not a tactical guy. Which is why he was successful with Jogi Loew during that 2006 run in the World Cup, because he had that tactical guy with as his No. 2.

Martin Vazquez is in over his head. He is not the No. 2 that can deliver the philosophy and the message of Jurgen Klinsmann. I saw it with my own eyes in the training sessions.

They are trying something huge, and enormous overhaul of the U.S. National Team, I don?t think the message is getting there. Martin Vasquez and Jurgen Kinsmann failed at Bayern Munich to do it. Martin Vasquez failed on his own as a head coach [at Chivas USA] to do it and I worry with the U.S. national team that it?s going to be a problem going forward.

What we are seeing, perhaps, is exactly how this stuff works its way into the daylight. Straus? article, anonymously sourced, was the critical icebreaker on a conversation that needed to happen. The next story or stories (the ones reported by quality journalists and respected media figures like Martino) will move the story along.

Here?s the video clip as Martino talked with NBC?s Russ Thaler at halftime of Saturday?s D.C. United-Columbus Crew contest; the match was on NBC Sports Network.

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Source: http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/23/kyle-martino-says-u-s-natioanl-team-problem-is-more-martin-vasquez-less-jurgen-klinsmann/related/

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