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When he came to Haiti Friday afternoon, people were tripping over themselves to take pictures with him and talk to him, Haitians and other foreigners alike.
He was easily recognised anywhere he went.
I think our local press have been very dishonest with the reports about his absence in Aruba or maybe they were working for their pay from elsewhere.
I heard a while ago that when Bora goes anywhere he does not like hanging out at hotels doing nothing...he gets a car or driver and goes driving around meeting with the locals, people from the home federations and even the refs who are doing the games...might be frowned on by FIFA but thats what he does.
He showed me some pictures and videos he took in Aruba and he was doing exactly what I heard he does.
There were two men in the hotel from Sunday, one a former Mexican goalkeeper who Bora told me in the guy's presence was no good and they all laughed and another from Argentina but they knew each other a long time.
The men's english was very limited but they managed to say in all their years of watching football, they had never seen anything like our game against Bahamas.
They counted 37 clear chances to Bahamas 2.
Bora and I had many conversations and he invited me a couple times to his table or during down time we would sit by the pool and chat.
Of course all our conversations were 'off record' but I can say one thing, he pointed out that in his first two and half years with the US team, he played seven internationals.
As I guessed he was not that interested in the overseas based internationals as he knew what they can do, what he wanted to find out was how good the Under 20 and Under 23 teams were as he says these are the one we must put the focus on.
I know he rates the HV duo of Dwayne Miller and the centre half Taylor as well as Rafe who he was seeing for the first time.
He also thinks that if Eric Vernon gets the exposure he could be better than Dane Richards.
Oops I said too much already
When he came to Haiti Friday afternoon, people were tripping over themselves to take pictures with him and talk to him, Haitians and other foreigners alike.
He was easily recognised anywhere he went.
I think our local press have been very dishonest with the reports about his absence in Aruba or maybe they were working for their pay from elsewhere.
I heard a while ago that when Bora goes anywhere he does not like hanging out at hotels doing nothing...he gets a car or driver and goes driving around meeting with the locals, people from the home federations and even the refs who are doing the games...might be frowned on by FIFA but thats what he does.
He showed me some pictures and videos he took in Aruba and he was doing exactly what I heard he does.
There were two men in the hotel from Sunday, one a former Mexican goalkeeper who Bora told me in the guy's presence was no good and they all laughed and another from Argentina but they knew each other a long time.
The men's english was very limited but they managed to say in all their years of watching football, they had never seen anything like our game against Bahamas.
They counted 37 clear chances to Bahamas 2.
Bora and I had many conversations and he invited me a couple times to his table or during down time we would sit by the pool and chat.
Of course all our conversations were 'off record' but I can say one thing, he pointed out that in his first two and half years with the US team, he played seven internationals.
As I guessed he was not that interested in the overseas based internationals as he knew what they can do, what he wanted to find out was how good the Under 20 and Under 23 teams were as he says these are the one we must put the focus on.
I know he rates the HV duo of Dwayne Miller and the centre half Taylor as well as Rafe who he was seeing for the first time.
He also thinks that if Eric Vernon gets the exposure he could be better than Dane Richards.
Oops I said too much already
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