In the latest Call It What You Want podcast, USMNT Legend Tony Meola explains changes Tab Ramos tried to implement when he was the U.S. U-20 coach but the Federation didn’t comply. “He insisted on this but this was always pushed back by U.S. Soccer,” Meola began. “He said, ‘Instead of having our camps all the time in California, in LA on these beautiful fields, why don't we take one camp a year, at least, for each national team and bring them to CONCACAF nations and just go down there for 10 days.’ “And the argument [from the Federation] was always, ‘Well, we can't train well. The fields are terrible down there.’ And his point was, ‘Well, we can't go from this [nice fields in LA] all the time, and then in one day, we fly to wherever and we go play in the worst fields with the worst conditions, hotel stink. You know?’ “Instead, we always brought the youth national teams to LA or to Florida, beautiful hotels, beautiful fields to train on, and then it's like, when you get to the senior team, it's like, holy sh*t. It's a shock when you go down there. “Like, what do you mean I can't drink the water? What does that mean? “I remember we were sat in Sarasota, Florida, in the hotel. Like it’s beautiful posh hotel, right by the water, and we were having this argument with somebody at U.S. Soccer. “He looked around the table, and this is when we didn't say anything at these meetings. And he's like, ‘Well, what do you think?’ “And now you got, like, three guys from U.S. Soccer sitting over there, and Des McAleenan, who has since passed, was the goalkeeper coach, and he was there too. “I'm like, I agree 100% with Tab. And Des was like, I agree 100% with Tab. And of course, next year, when the schedule came out, no teams went down.” 😂 Do you want to see Tab Ramos back in U.S. Soccer as a coach or a director? 👀

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So many said it could never work and yet here we are… Better late than never! A step in the right direction for soccer in the US. @THEChrisKessell @EricWynalda

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Hope he's there a while! 😜

I don't know this guy at all... NISA with a total cleaning of the management team has to be a good thing. I wish they would have did this years ago. Like I said the other day... NISA can play a vital role in soccer in the US as constructed now.

Saturday we held our 2nd Annual Copa De Cato 3v3 Tournament where 100% of registration fees go to pay for scholarships for kids to play at West Side Soccer. We raised enough money to fully fund 30 kids!!!!

Atlanta just gave the perfect tribute to Hank Aaron at the All Star Game

What a GK performance by Freese in that Gold Cup QF?! 😳😳😳👏👏👏