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Stray by Kari Gregg5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() “You gotta get it in quickly any way possible,” he told a Fox Sports podcast. The behind-the-back aspect, meanwhile, allows for expediency on Berhalter’s end. ![]() The bounce, as he told Johnson, allows the ball to arrive at the player traveling upward, right into a natural overhead throwing motion. He and his ragtag group of strays made a warm and welcoming home.Luke believes he's finally found where he belongs. And he got an answer that Berhalter has since given to others as well: there is.īerhalter claims, apparently sincerely, that the purpose is to facilitate a quicker throw-in. He's still searching for where he fits in.After losing his family in a vicious attack, Dean rebuilt his pack by accepting loners, rejects, other survivors, and even ferals. But Johnson was curious: Is there a reason for the bounce passes? “He's made it his little staple,” defender DeAndre Yedlin says. Whenever a stray ball would trickle out of play and into the vicinity of the USMNT coach, he’d delight fans with an aggressively sharp bounce pass, and sometimes even a behind-the-back pass, to one of his players. They’d become almost folkloric among followers of the U.S. ![]() DOHA, Qatar - Sean Johnson was into Year 4 as a player under coach Gregg Berhalter when he started wondering about the bounce passes. ![]()
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