Diskerud responds to Wambach: ‘Think about who you try to disenfranchise’

The Aragorn-looking midfielder showed some gumption today as he hit back at compatriot Abby Wambach for describing U.S. Men’s National Team players as “foreign guys”. “Oh man, I would definitely fire Jurgen”, said Wambach. “I love watching him play, and I love Fabian Johnson, and he plays in Germany (for Borussia Monchengladbach) and is actually killing it right now after being sent home (from a U.S. Soccer camp by Klinsmann) for ‘faking an injury.’ I think this experiment that U.S. Soccer has given Jürgen isn’t one that, personally, I’m into”.

“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”, the former LA Galaxy star explained. “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 club teams and won’t even blink twice, whereas if we go three and out I’ll be devastated and I think that’s a piece that’s important”. “The way that he has brought in a bunch of these foreign guys is not something I believe in wholeheartedly”, she added on the Bill Simmons Podcast. Wambach was likely referring to the number of dual citizens that make up the team, including Diskerud, who holds both Norwegian and US passports.

Superstar Abby Wambach retired from soccer this week, bringing her record-breaking career to a spectacular close.

It’s a (some might say overly) dramatic approach, which sees the US soccer legend expressing a simultaneously somber and hopeful sentiment.

“Do I think that one day it’s possible?” The U.S. women had gone 92-0-12 since. I know we are talking about gender pay gap differences. The night started off with thanks you, Wambach received a photo from Mayor Warren and we heard speeches from her sister and nephew.

USA’s retiring all-time top scorer Abby Wambach has called on the nation’s football president Sunil Gulati to sack head coach Jurgen Klinsmann, believing the former Tottenham striker has taken the national side as far as can in his four years in charge.

Jurgen Klinsmann has been under pressure after failing in the Gold Cup semifinals this summer.

“But you also have to drop the egos and, it seems to me, there are too many egos in our men’s program right now”.

“It’s kind of symbolic; I get 70 minutes and we don’t score a goal”, Wambach said, alluding to why it’s time for her, at 35, to retire.

“The more money that soccer players can make in this country, you’re gonna find our better athletes will be getting more involved in playing soccer”, she said.

At an event hosted at the Rochester Convention Center, Wambach was greeted by fans recognizing her incredible career as a soccer player.

Klinsmann this year won some winning challenging friendlies in Europe, beating Netherlands and Germany, and escaped from a hard group at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. “If they’re born in other countries, we aren’t making progress”, he said.