Why is brek shea not playing

Still, he graduated in the top of his class. Shea plays coy when I ask about that and says his class only had 12 graduates. Everywhere you turn. Many of them purple. None of them a boring color. The only table in the room has a bunch of purple cleats on it. It says the same across the inside of his right shin, in huge letters. Beside it is a street sign. On his left biceps, two doves represent his younger sisters.

He also has two brothers, who are a good bit older than he is, and had moved out early in his childhood. He likes to be around a lot of people. And then you have the people who like you for who you are and as a person.

Now Shea is clad in green sneakers, red shorts, a gray tank top and a black, backward Left Foot Studio hat. With his hair pulled away from his eyes, they look even bluer. We have lunch on the terrace of a lakeside steakhouse in downtown Orlando. He orders sushi. At a steakhouse. We talk about his mediaphobia. I do things because I enjoy them. I want to have fun all the time. In some ways, you can only harness the creativity that makes Shea a special player if you also let it run wild.

He keeps on twirling his hat around on his head. This is beginning to feel an awful lot like a real interview. As I ask him questions, Shea peers over my shoulder, to a television with some kind of fishing show on. The check comes and we get up. Heath has reinvented him as a left back, and the returns have been promising. Aerobic capacity, he can run up and down all day. Choosing to sign with Orlando was both a safe bet and a gamble. The general manager, Paul McDonough, was one of his old agents.

Yet it meant taking a step back, with an expansion team. He fits in, feels comfortable again. A club staffer tells me the locker room was completely quiet until Shea signed. I was injured a lot of the time. And then when I came back from injury was put on loan in, quite frankly, shit situations. The club has donated a purple street soccer court to a local community center in an impoverished downtown neighborhood.

Shea will paint a mural on the wall beside the court. Like everyone, professional athletes have a work personality.

All in all, this was a true professional performance and one Inter Miami should look to build on. Inter Miami Player Ratings. Nicolas Figal 5. Andres Reyes 6 — A strong bounce-back display with more accurate passing. Leandro Gonzalez Pirez 7 — Another brick wall outing with plenty of interventions and clearances. His passing was not as good as usual, though. Ben Sweat 6 — Pushed into the attack regularly and was not troubled defensively, aside from one first-half play in which he misplayed the ball.

Blaise Matuidi 6 — Drove the ball forward often in the first half with his quick passing or dribbling runs, but his impact faded after the break. Victor Ulloa 6. Lewis Morgan 6. His set-piece delivery was improved, too. Rodolfo Pizarro 6. Also combined well throughout. Brek Shea 7. Juan Agudelo 7. Not only scored a clinical goal early, but his hold-up and combination play were quality.

National Team? Which Premier League team would be a good fit for Shea if he were to go on loan this winter? Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Or Pearce Of course, what in the world we do with Wagner, Wallace, and our other fullbacks is anybody's guess.

What kind of organization needs 5 left backs in their first team? Wagner is in Vancouver, but that still leaves four LBs. Wallace can fill in a DM, though, and will Benitez ever return to Colombia? SeventhRowScreamer Member. He should play striker in Norway or Sweden. They know how to groom the Breks of the world. Then it's off to the Dutch league for final touchups. After that he could go to France or maybe Germany. Where should Brek avoid? MLS, England and Scotland.

Jan 7, South of Frisconsin. Shea and Avila should be considerations at forward. This team doesn't have any closers or at least closers who are closing but Avila can do things close in and Shea has a body worth putting into the box. JPB4 Member. Unless you have been going to every practice I don't know how you can say one way or the other Shea has not shown the ability to finish.

I just think it's really damning to SH that Shea comes out of an almost 2 month training camp as a starter, gets in the staring XI in the very first game at home, no he did not play great vs. Houston but very few did, and then he gets benched. What the F is that all about?

Have you ever seen this happen in any other sport? Or even in MLS? For shea in particular and any player in general, the best place for them to develop is away, far away from the bus driver. What position does he play for the national team program? Forward correct? Status quo is not working, I'd go back to a with Shea working up top with Cunny, maybe as an offset F, drop Ferreira to Dax's spot, replace Atiba with Avi, and roll with that.

Yes that puts Dax on the bench. WarrenAbao New Member. Jul 7, Grand Prairie, Tex. I thought Shea was best in the super-sub forward role he played in the first half of last year.