Dan thinks Colorado made a phenomenally bad decision based mostly on past performance while admitting this:

Steve Sampson and Thomas Rongen have won doubles in MLS.

I rest my case. Jeff Carlisle goes on to paint a picture of the dysfunctional working relationship between Smith and his superiors:

Smith went public with his displeasure in an October interview with The Denver Post but later tried to make peace with Bravo, realizing that he didn't want to leave the team he had spent three years putting together.

Paul Kennedy of Soccer America reports that less than a year after he led the Colorado Rapids to their first MLS championship, Englishman Gary Smith is out as head coach.
Management announced on Monday that it will not renew Smith's contract, making his departure the second quickest forced exit of an MLS Cup champion coach in league history.

Safe hands: Allstate had nothing on Kasey Keller when he was in the U.S. National Team goal (AP Photo).

One of the greatest performances of Kasey Keller's outstanding goalkeeping career came before just 12,298 fans at the cavernous Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

And I was there, as a fan, in the stands.

The appointment of Bob Bradley as the national team coach for Egypt is significant on a number of different fronts, both on and off the field, and for our nation and abroad.
Where I have addressed the signficance of Bradley's on-field influence in a number of different posts, Seth Vertelney of goal.

Former MLS and U.S. men's national team coach Bob Bradley was appointed today by the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) to coach their senior men's national team. Bradley, fired by the USMNT this summer, had been rumored for months to be ...
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Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated comments on U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann naming Martín Vásquez as his No. 2, as well as his strengths and weaknesses-
Let me start off by saying it's rare to hear so much talk about an assistant coach for the U.S. national team. Quick, can you name the No.

Jason Davis writes how Bob Bradley continues to blaze trails for the American soccer coach.
Don't cry for Bob Bradley. Despite losing his job as the head coach of the United States National Team rather unceremoniously just a week and a half ago, Bradley is already in the mix for another position.

What lineup will Jurgen Klinsmann use tonight in his USMNT debut against Mexico?
We'll all have to wait and see of course, and another thing we'll have to wait and see about is what players Klinsmann will rely heavily on during his time as US coach.
Might those players be on the field tonight against Mexico?

What lineup will Jurgen Klinsmann use tonight in his USMNT debut against Mexico?
We'll all have to wait and see of course, and another thing we'll have to wait and see about is what players Klinsmann will rely heavily on during his time as US coach.
Might those players be on the field tonight against Mexico?

Former U.S. national team coach Bob Bradley has surfaced as a leading candidate to take over Egypt.
Bradley, will meet with the head of the Egyptian federation this week, national team press officer Azmi Megahed told MLSSoccer.com.
Bob Bradley appears to be in line to coach Egypt's national team.

Here are some quotes from today's press conference introducing Jurgen Klinsmann. For the full transcript, click here.
U.S. Soccer President SUNIL GULATI
Opening comments:
"I think today is a very important day and perhaps the start of a new era for us. We're extraordinarily excited about having Jurgen Klinsmann join our team, to lead our team and to help lead our technical program.

It is not uncommon to make a coaching change following a World Cup - in looking at the past 2010 FIFA World Cup, the only two managers who had also managed in the previous 2006 FIFA World Cup were that tournament's two finalists - Marcello Lippi (Italy) and Raymond Domanech (France).
Both Lippi and Domanech saw their teams slump badly in the following tournament, not being able to move on from the group stages.

Not long ago, someone with a long history with US Soccer was talking to me about Bob Bradley, and about what I thought about him continuing as coach of the men's team.
I answered honestly that I thought it had been a mistake to retain him, but that I didn't see it as an error that U.S. Soccer would rectify.

The US national team has a lot to prove this summer. Fans don't feel good about the roster. There are questions in the defense. Disappointing results have become the norm. In fact, you can say it's all been downhill since losing to Mexico in the Gold Cup.
And there's a big tournament coming up soon, which the team pretty much needs to win.

It was an interesting week in Major League Soccer, what with three scoreless draws, a few rather awful matches, and one beautiful display of soccer between Los Angeles and New York.

The Galaxy-Red Bulls tilt didn't produce a winner, but the quality of soccer led to several players from the match earning SBI MLS Best XI honors this week.

It started as a Twitter daydream. Imaging Clint Dempsey and Michael Bradley duking it out during the weekend's Fulham/ Aston Villa game. Bradley however could not partake in the USMNT Midfiedler Celebrity Death Match because he arrived at Villa Park only the day before. Still we pictured what the fight might look like.

Chivas USA will announce Robin Fraser as its new head coach on Tuesday, according to the Salt Lake Tribune and ESPN Deportes. The 44-year-old has spent the last four years as an assistant with Real Salt Lake, where he has helped Jason Kreis build one of the more dominant sides in Major League Soccer.