That's just what we call Coach Speak Baby!

Someone really should get somebody to translate for CNNSI. Apparently nobody with their soccer coverage has ever heard of coach speak.













That's just what we call "coach speak", Baby. - Bruce Campbell

The most kicked around names to replace Bruce Arena if he is let go has been Jurgen Klinsmen, the German coach. Aparently, some genius decided it would be a good idea to just ask him if he was interested in the job at the press conference following Germany's victory over Sweden. Klinsmen's contract is up some time this year, and he hasn't said what he will do afterwards, but seeing as his team is still playing at least through next weekend Klinsman answered the only way he could.

"That doesn't interest me at all," said Klinsmann, reacting to speculation in the German media Monday that he was been lined up to replace Bruce Arena after the U.S. team's first-round exit at the World Cup. "At the moment, I'm only interested in my job and that has to continue to the final."

For anyone who doesn't follow sports more than casually that's what is commonly referred to as coach speak. Meaning they give you the answer they are supposed and don't give anything away about what they are planning. Why would Klinnsman come out and mess with his team's head a couple of days before their huge game with Argentina, by putting into doubt whether he plans to coach them again. Here's a news flash for the geniuses at CNNSI. You could ask any coach in the quarter finals about what they are planning to do after the World Cup and they'd give you that answer almost verbatim. The only exception might be Sven Erickson with England, who is getting the boot after the tournament, and even he would only alter so much as to say that would be something to consider after the tournament. Nobody is talking about what they are going to do after the tournament, until they lose. Any coach worth a crap is focused on who they play next and how to get his team to the quarter finals or the semis. Nobody is going to go blabbing to the press about how they are considering 20,000 job offers instead of focusing on the job at hand and how to win.