The 2010 FIFA World Cup Thread #2/Sports Saturday Thread #3 For 6/26/10: Going Going Ghana......Gyan's Strike, Bradley's Coaching, Send

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Simply put folks, in games like this, where it comes down to the littlest of things, coaching is just so vital in this sport.

Today, you have seen it on full display, as Bob Bradley basically cost his team today.

Bradley is an ideal assistance coach, but not a main manager at this level. And a game that should have been a full revenge game for the United States today after what transpired in 2006 started out as tame friendly like effort thanks to Michael Bradley being affected with being partnered again out of nowhere with Ricardo Clark.

It's not just the giveaway that lead to Tim Howard, Jay Demerit, and Carlos Bocanegra looking bad on Prince Boateng's shot. It was just the nervous energy that Clark brought to the game that caused the United States to have their third out of 4th awful start.

More on this later.

And yet another random Man of the Match award given.......man, the fans have really had a field day here:

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