HARRISON, N.J. (AP) – Sebastian Bar Halter ran through the midfield in a red, white and blue jersey with the coat of arms of the US national team as the Americans prepared for next year’s World Cup. Jonathan Klinsman was on the bench.
“It’s incredible. Just thinking about it, I think it probably never happened in the history of football where you have two national team coaches. “It’s kind of crazy.”
My sons shine for the Americans.
Sebastian Belharter, 24, He made his Friendly debut on June 10th This is the sixth season of Major League Soccer.
28-year-old Jonathan Clinsman was called up with Cecena at Serie B in Italy three years later as a backup with the LA Galaxy. He didn’t play Saturday’s 2-0 loss However, there is another chance against Japan on Tuesday night in Columbus, Ohio.
“I will do whatever I can to make the best impression and see what comes next,” he said. “I’m confident in making these impossible saves look a bit impossible.”
Jurgen Klinsmann, star German striker, He has coached the United States since 2011 – 2016. I led the team to 16 rounds of the 2014 World Cup. He was fired after a pair of losses In the first two qualifying rounds of the 2018 tournament.
Greg Barhalter was a US defender in 2002 and at the ’06 World Cup He coached Americans from 2018 to 22bring them to 16 World Cup Rounds. he I’ve returned since mid-2023 Until mid-2024, and so was it Let go after the first round of elimination at Copa America.
“It brings a lot when you grow up around the game, you’re around the good people and you’re around the game at a high level,” said retired midfielder Michael Bradley. Father Bob has coached Americans since 2006-11..
The boys are competing for a spot on the roster as Americans hold a soccer premiere event next year. Current Director Mauricio Pockettino After that, we decided to rock the player pool. Loss pair in the Conca Cahunations League in March.
“It was a big wake-up call,” Pockettino said Monday.
Sebastian Barhalter has started seven of his last eight US matches and is moving forward towards his father’s 44 caps. He was born in London in 2001 when his father was at Crystal Palace.
“All I remember was when he played for Energy Cottbus,” he said. Looking back at the German Second Division match on May 14, 2006, I visited Munich in 1860. “It was the last day of the season. They needed a victory to get up, he got penalty kicks, they got up, everyone was on the field. I was on my dad’s shoulder, parading through the sea of people.”
He was at the Youth Academy in Hammerby and Columbus in Sweden, when his father coached those clubs, played for North Carolina (his father’s old university) in 2019 and made his professional debut in Columbus in 2020.
“We never said that. You have to do this. It was really that he wants to play all the time,” Greg Barhalter said.
The Barhalters have a soccer conversation every week.
“Perhaps the biggest thing I’ve learned is that I can easily assimilate and be myself in the environment I enter, so I’m not embarrassed about it,” Sebastian Barhalter said.
Jonathan Klinsman only Previous National Team Camp was in 2018.when he trained but didn’t wear clothes.
He was born in Munich. His father, along with Bayern, was born to the end with a brilliant career, including 47 goals and titles in 108 appearances for West Germany and Germany at the 1990 World Cup and the 1996 European Championships.
Jonathan Klinsman spent many young people in Newport Beach, where his father and California wife Debbie were calm. At the age of nine, young Christman hanged out with the German national team as his father coached Host Nation in a third-place finish at the 2006 World Cup.
“A lot of fond memories were able to be around those players as little kids and respect them,” he said. “You don’t fully understand all the effects and pressures.”
He then saw his father coach the US like many fans at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, and Jonathan Klinsmann and his family missed the loss of the American group stage to Germany in Recife. Lower lower back flood This prevented them from arriving at the team hotel for a trip to Arena Pernambuco.
“They said our bus had no way to get to the hotel, so we had to swallow it and see it at the hotel,” he said.
Jonathan Klinsmann played youth soccer in Southern California, and after his father became the first team coach in 2008-09, he moved to Bayern Youth Academy, where he switched to goalkeeper for the past. He was in 2014 with his father and the World Cup roster. The young man tweeted, “Hahahahaha.” He apologised to Donovan.
He played college soccer at the University of California, Berkeley in 2015-16. It was launched for the US at the 20 Under World Cup in 2017 He saved a penalty kick during his professional debut in the Europa League match on December 7, 2017. He transferred to St. Gallen, Switzerland in June 2019. Signed with MLS in August 2020.
“He chose football at the end of the day, but he also had a good opportunity to go far away from basketball,” Jurgen Klinsmann said of his 6-foot-4 (1.93 meters) son.
Both sons made the decision to be professional athletes from an early age.
“It scraped me off. “If you really want it, you have to work harder than anyone else.”
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