Bob Bradley is as organized a manager as you will find, and always seems to find the devil in the details. In his conference call with US Soccer, he discusses important on and off the field keys to success in today's match versus Mexico-On the problems that altitude can cause and why the U.S. isn’t arriving earlier or training at altitude: “We have worked for a long time with different people, different experts, on altitude training, including many from the U.S. Olympic Committee. The research we have stuck with is one that says if you don’t have enough time to acclimatize, which can take 10 days or so, then going in late is your best bet. So that is the way we’ve scheduled things, knowing that in a single fixture date, players have only arrived on the last day.”
On dealing with Mexico in Azteca: “I think it’s important as a team to stay together. You don’t want a game that gets stretched all over the place, it’s very important to have a good solid base of organization and then the ability to play from that.”
For the complete US Soccer Conference Call transcript - http://www.ussoccer.com/News/Mens-National-Team/2009/08/US-Soccer-Conference-Call-Transcript-Bob-Bradley-and-Tim-Howard.aspx
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