Things have been flying around fast and furious in the US domestic soccer world. Let's recap
the action:
Head Coach Bob Bradley and Chivas USA trade their DP slot to New York in exchange for hot and cold
midfielder Amado Guevara.
Just in case you haven't heard, Bob Bradley and US Soccer announced the list of players invited
to USMNT camp to train for friendlies against Denmark in January and Mexico in February.
In alphabetical order, he's the list:
A sad, dark cloud has descended up the world today, blanketing not only the Hunt family and the
Kansas City Chiefs organization but all of those who consider themselves as fans of US
soccer.
Original MLS investor and patriarch Lamar Hunt died
Just when I'm thinking, "How boring the off-season is", seemingly coming out of
nowhere DCU shipped teenage phenom Freddy Adu and franchise GK Nicky Rimando out to Real Salt Lake
in exchange for goalkeeper Jay Nolly, a major allocation and f
I don't want my previous posts to seem in any way as a knock on Bob Bradley. To the contrary I
think right now he and Frank Yallop are the coaching class of MLS (LA is lucky to have both these
guys in town).
Many people are going to look
The USSF announced today Bob Bradley as the men's senior team interim coach and the head coach
of the US U-23 team.
This certainly means Bradley will no longer be coaching Chivas USA (have fun in LA with a Guevara
that only Bradley had a
Short answer? No. What it does equal, though, is a bunch of really pissed off people who have every
right to be.
Can they be pissed off that we lost out on the best candidate and potential difference maker?
Sure.
Can they be pissed off
Well, Jürgen Klinsmann has taken his name off the candidates list for the US
job.
This from Allen Hopkins over at ESPN:
"Klinsmann, in a statement sent to ESPN, said: 'Sunil [Gulati] and I have concluded o
Just when I get excited about this article from earlier today, this one from ESPN comes out and
pours cold water all over my eagerness.
The anticipation has reached a point where once the announcement is finally made, it'll be
like, "
Ives Galarcep over at ESPN has been asking the same thing I've been yelling: Where's our
new coach?
Most hopeful quote from the piece:
"Gulati promised an announcement this week and all signs point to it finally
happ
I've decided to take stab on ways to improve the domestic game while I have plenty of time to
think about it. The MLS off season and waiting for our new US head coach (to be announced I guess a
month before WC qualifying begins at this rate) has left
