The final league matches before a World Cup roster is finalized bring some of the greatest scrutiny and internal pressure a player will ever face. Especially for strikers. jeffrueter on possibly this cycle’s most scrutinized: Jesús Ferreira.
Ferreira had another crucial miss in the playoff opener against Minnesota United, flubbing his first touch and negating any chance at a shot as the ball thunked into Sebastian Lletget’s path. While he made his penalty in the ensuing shootout, he wasn’t able to make much of an impact as Austin took a 2-0 lead into halftime a week later.
While MLS is still a lower level than the top leagues of Europe, it isn’t as far off as it used to be. Simply scoring in Europe isn’t enough to become a guaranteed inclusion on a U.S. roster — just ask Jordan Pefok, who has three goals and three assists in his first 10 Bundesliga games but appears to be a World Cup longshot.
Of course, Wondolowski’s 2014 World Cup became impossibly tangled with a high profile miss that, five years later,He had fared better in the 2014 MLS season than the year before, scoring 14 goals to top the previous season’s 11. However, the position’s obsessive focus on scoring goals can become a striker’s downfall if they can’t get out of their own way.
“I literally felt like I had to be the best or among the best at everything we did,” Gomez said. “It’s an immense sense of pressure. You can do whatever mental exercise you want with psychologists, sports psychologists, mental health gurus, whatever you want, but it’s through action. It’s through putting the ball in the back of the net and not having to think about it, having it be instinctual. The moment you get inside your head as a forward, It’s over.
“At this point, for me to put my attention to that… kind of defeats the purpose of me being here with the Galaxy,”the East Hartford camp. “I want to focus on what I have been doing with the Galaxy. is a long shot in my mind. But it’s definitely something that I would like to be a part of.”
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