It seems that whenever a team has performed badly in the World Cup, it is all ways the coach’s fault. I think that at some point the blame has to be dished out on the players as well. A coach can only do so much, he can tell players where to be, what to do when they receive the ball, and so on and so forth. But it is really up to the individual players acting as a team to get the job done.

For example, if I were a coach and I just tell my players to all run after the ball and whoever has it should just run until they have a shot that will obviously be viewed as awful tactics. But the second those tactics (in some parallel universe) work, I, the coach, am a hero when really I did nothing but tell the kids to play like they did when they were 5 years old.

You see, a coach has a lot of responsibility, and it often times seems that the players are able to shrug their responsibilities off onto the coach. At some point the players have to stand up and admit that they are at fault. I am not saying it is never the coach’s fault, but I am saying it should be a more balanced playing field when it comes to responsibility when things don’t go the way they were planned.

This is a guest post written by Kyle Wanchalk over at SportsUntapped.com