Soundoff: What Next for Your National Team?

Canada
Keep the manager, he's the best we've had recently
How about score some goals and pass intelligently… too much? We just dropped to 100 in the rankings, and it's probably a fair assessment. Embarrassing but fair-ish. Hopefully having Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver in MLS will gradually increase and improve the players we can draw from and keep some nation-changers playing here.

Netherlands
Keep the manager, he did a good job obviously.
Gio stopped, so we need a new left back. Braafheid is not really someone I would like to see… and Anita isn't ready for the international level either. The system BvM works with is good, although I'm not too sure about van Persie as a striker. Otherwise all players that played at the world cup are good. Stekelenburg and Van der Wiel should play Champions League next season, if it's for ajax or for an foreign club… we'll see.

Spain
Keep Vicente del Bosque and keep the team. Give Bojan Krkić a chance to score.

USA first, then Germany (Mom's side of the family) & Scotland (Dad's side)

USA
Keep the manager or replace him with a proven international candidate, I'm good with either.
I'd like to see more consistency of play. When we're good, we're actually pretty good. Not world class, but darn good. When we're bad, we suck pretty badly. More work on tactics, less booting the ball down field like they're playing American Football and going for a long bomb (they lack the skill to pull that off with any regularity).

Germany
Keep the manager (done).
More of the same please, just work on not psyching the team out when they go to play Spain again.

Scotland
Keep the manager.
There was a good nation blog write-up on this very question here the other day that answers the question for me (let the kids play).

Yeah we've got a few guys that we have our fingers crossed on no? Bunbury, deGuzman (he could you never know!), Hoilett. Having 3 Canadian teams in MLS will be a major plus. Also, the CSA seems to be scheduling more friendlies, which is good so we can have some of our guys get used to playing with each other. Qualifiers should be interesting with some changes being proposed. Also the Gold Cup isn't far away is it? I wonder how Hart will approach it?

USA
Drop the manager: we've done good with Bradley, but it's time to move on. I want to see what Dominic Kinnear can do, he's done great with Houston.
I would like to see more Torres, more Holden, more Hercules and less Clark.

Mexico
Drop the manager: I want to say that I want a Mexican manager, but none, besides Chepo de la Torre, convinces me much. Whom I really want to see is Bielsa even though I doubt he would take the job.
On the field I would like see less unfit European-based players and more fit Mexican-based players.

Italy
Drop the Manager: I like Prandelli, but personally I would've liked to see Fabio Capello on the bench.
I would like to see less old guard, more Cassano.

What Canada needs, is it's own league.

agreed when it comes to the USA. They might not have the best midfield in the world, but they play pretty well when they use it and move without the ball instead of just constantly trying to boot it down field and beat the defense to the ball. I won't be sad to see Bob Bradley gone (although I do like the guy). I'd also be in favor of less Findley and Clark, and, of course, more of Gomez.

1. North Korea
2. We have top men working on it now. TOP. MEN.
3. No changes needed. We won it. Period. Prove me wrong in the North Korean media.

1. France
2. DOMENECH IS GONE! Time for some Laurent Blanc
3. I would like to see no more Ribery, Evra, Abidal, Gallas, etc for a LONG time. Play some of the U19 squad that is doing so well.

1. USA
2. Bradley, he helped organize the team well and build a winning mentallity, but it is time for a change his mindset and his player slection was to rigid. Have no idea of a good replacement.
3. I would like a new coach to use more Feilhaber, Torres, Hercules, and Spector.

1. Japan
2. A new coach is a definite since Takeshi Okada finished after the World Cup to become a farmer! (yes, really). No real word on who will replace him yet, but there's been lots of speculation about Marcelo Bielsa or Jose Peckerman, but general consensus over on the Japan blog would prefer someone with at least Japanese connections, possibly Kashima Antlers (3 times champions and top of the leaguea s we speak) boss Oswaldo de Oliveira, who is Brazilian but knows Japanese football inside out.
3. A few of the older players will be gone, but the squad is largely quite youthful with star man Keisuke Honda just 23. The team should be built around his talents at the moment. The defensive style of the World Cup will probably disappear for now as Japan's focus shifts to the Asian Cup which is in January in Qatar. Japan are obviously one of the favourites and so a more attacking style will be necessary against Asian opposition.

1. England
2. Capello stays.
3. The team needs a bit of an overhaul in personnel and attitude. Some are too old and a bit slow, but there is a lack of quality replacements coming through. There are a few good young 'uns though, and they need to be given an opportunity. The likes of Young, Agbonlahor, Milner, Johnson, Dawson, Hart need to be given a few games in England colours to show what they can do rather than sporadic opportunities and then being discarded of they don't do the business in their 20 minute cameo appearance.

1. USA.

2. Keep Bob Bradley unless Jurgen Klinsmann is available and announces that he wants the job. Bradley has instilled an emotional, aggressive, winning attitude and style of play – he has found a way to integrate the natural athleticism and physicality of Americans into a very solid and formidable style of play that is attack oriented. The next step is establishing a mental strength and a defensive competence, which the lack thereof in the World Cup cost the USA dearly – we can not continually concede early goals and expect to win.

3. I'd start seeing whether or not Landon Donovan can play more of a dynamic playmaker role – by the time the next world cup rolls around he'll be 32, which means his pace and athleticism will have decreased. I like to see more Hercules Gomez, Stuart Holden, and Benny Feilhaber and of course Michael Bradley will be a key component in the next tournament.

1. Germany
2. Löw is staying and i am delighted with that
3. I am very pleased with the progression of the DFB. The right youngsters are coming through at the right times, and no established players are not being shown too much respect by not having to work for their spots. the only change i really want to see on the pitch is that Mario Gomez never be allowed within 11.4 km of his international teammates. does anybody in England want him? actually he is probably more suited for the Myanmar leagues

“only change i really want to see on the pitch is that Mario Gomez never be allowed within 11.4 km of his international teammates. does anybody in England want him? actually he is probably more suited for the Myanmar leagues”

ROFLMAO!

1. Paraguay
2. Delighted Martino is staying on for the Copa America and will more than likely continue through the next World Cup.
3. We are deficient in play-making and ball possession. Martino has tried to improve this, but in this World Cup we have seen more of the same than in previous editions. Martino has said he wants to change this, but it will be difficult without a truly creative midfielder. Cabanas played this role during the qualifiers, and Santa Cruz also attempted this role by playing out of position. Still, Spain made past us by the skin of their teeth and I think we are title candidates for the upcoming Copa America.

Japan will meet Paraguay in Copa America Final!

1. Oranje
2. Keep
3. Just replace the voids being the left by the older player retiring.. As the saying goes; out with the old, in with the new and improved…

Hup Oranje Hup in 2012, 2014 and beyond..!!!

Here's some shitty info: your two replacements for Ashley Cole are Stephen Warnock and Leighton Baines. Warnock has one cap at 28, Baines is 25 and has two.

True about those two, but no real need to replace Ashley Cole just yet – he's by far the best left-back available.

But neither Warnock or Baines will be the replacement for Cole when he finished – by the time he does need to be replaced far more likely than Warnock or Baines is Kieron Gibbs of Arsenal who will most likely have developed more by then.

Had Gibbs not been injured late last season it would have been him rather than Baines or Warnock that would have been in the World Cup squad (after Bridge ruled himself out). Warnock/Baines only got a look in firstly because Bridge was not going, and secondly because Gibbs was injured. Can't see that changing.