Instead of rotating its national team coaches every couple years (a practice that I've never really understood), the US soccer team sticks with coaches (click here for an interview with Sunil Gulati of the US Soccer Federation). I like this, and it seems to make sense from a win-loss perspective, too. An example from football: Bill Cowher faced a good amount of pressure in his first ~10 years as coach of the Steelers. But the Rooney family (the owners) committed to Cowher, and won the Super Bowl. Cowher is now mentioned as a "top candidate" whenever coaching vacancies come up. I hope the US sticks with Bradley.
Prediction: the US gets it done in Azteca (2-0); goals by Onyewu and Donovan.
Doh!
ReplyDeleteDidn't see the full game, but saw the highlights. At least Davies has developed into a real #1 option for us. What about Ching? Did he create? Everyone seems to be content with him wandering around the field for 80 minutes and making a couple of nice layoffs to the midfield, so I'm curious to hear how he played.
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