Remember when Scarface quit his job in the cult classic “Half Baked?” That was Abby Wambach in a nutshell on Wednesday.
The leading goalscorer in U.S. women’s national team history (184) -- just hours before the final game of her career -- decided to take a few parting shots on the Bill Simmons Podcast. Jurgen Klinsmann and Fabian Johnson were just a few of the parties to feel her wrath.
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“I would definitely fire Jurgen [Klinsmann to fix the U.S. men’s national team]. Sorry, Sunil [Gulati]. Sorry U.S. Soccer, but I don’t think the litmus test on him [Klinsmann has worked],” Wambach said. “He hasn’t really focused I feel enough attention on the youth programs. Although he says he has, I don’t think that he has.”
She went on: “The way that he has changed and brought in these foreign guys, it’s just not something that I believe in.
“I love Jermaine Jones, I love watching him play, and I love Fabian Johnson, but I just think that this experiment that US Soccer has given Jürgen, just isn’t one that, personally, I’m into.”
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I mean I agree with Wambach. Foreign players have no place in US national teams. pic.twitter.com/mEzkq7NicJ
— Richard Whittall (@RWhittall) December 16, 2015
Hysterical hypocrisy aside, Wambach isn’t the first person to call for Klinsmann’s job. She’s just the first member within U.S. soccer to do so.
Luckily, she won’t have to worry about answering her critics.
Okay, so. It's no hoax. As a prelude to retiring, Abby Wambach has officially deleted all her social media accounts pic.twitter.com/KHx1HtubwU
— Jonathan Tannenwald (@thegoalkeeper) December 16, 2015
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