Soccer Today! on SPN Radio-March 10th 2017- Marta to Orlando?, Zlatan to LA? and the Games of the Week

IIRC Mark Habscheid coached the Canadian team to a world championship gold and silver in ‘04 & ‘05 with nothing but CHL experience and I believe there are others as well. I think the CHL is a relatively higher quality hockey league than the CPL is soccer but also our national hockey team, even at short handed tournaments like the WC is so stacked that the coaching mandate is “just don’t mess this up”.  Coach K also coached the US national basketball team for years as an NCAA lifer, but same argument and also, he’s one of the all time great basketball coaches.    For me, the biggest argument against Smyrniotis is just that we need a coach who gets players excited to play for us. Someone with some level of European pedigree or international success might have an easier time getting everyone on board than a guy who has never coached outside of Canada. I know a lot of players respect Bobby and maybe he could make it work, but I think there are better options. I know we like shitting on Canada soccer and for good reason, but given the slate of games we have on the schedule- the friendlies, Copa, the home field World Cup, just the direction the program seems to be headed in since Kevin Blue took over, it would be strange to me if we went with a local guy instead of the beat available. It does genuinely feel like we’re headed in the right direction.

TSS Rovers are in (thankfully Valour does not play them)

Thanks. That’s great 

Zator started for Korona Kielce in the Polish League.   2-0 up at half.  3 points would take them out of the relegation zone, at least temporarily. 

Every coaching hire is a risk despite credentials.  But given what's in front of the CMNT: 2 high level friendlies, Copa & WC26, if the CSA were to hire a coach without the appropriate level of experience to match or exceed the talent level of the team then that's a serious issue off the bat. The stakes are too high and there's not enough time to get it wrong. 

Yeah sounding like Napoli might be likely. The only other thing I've seen is that Chelsea could challenge them on that, but not sure how much truth there is in that, and not sure how attractive that dumpster fire would be right now.

In case anyone cared.    

Ha. A bit hyberbolic (your style I know) at best and false in actual reality.  Both his move there and to Miami, leadership was talked about.  He is good on the ball which is must and has made less mental errors for Canada than the alternatives to this point. Someone has to play, I am all for moving to better options if and when they have proved themselves as such.  I guess to be construction, let's look at actual alternatives.  Waterman? Or what looks to me like throwing a new partnership - Cornelius and Bombito - to the top 10 FIFA wolves and hoping for the best.  I've seen better centre backs' confidence destroyed by less. 

To put it into terms I can understand, it would be like hiring the coach of, let's say, the Oshawa Generals to coach our Olympic hockey team.  And that coach hasn't head coached a team above the OHL.  Anything's possible and to be honest I am getting  one of my vibes that Smyrniotis (like Herdman) could do it but it's highly unlikely. BTW, I never realized there were so many teams in the CHL with so many long term recognizable names.  There was only one I didn't know, the Wenatchee Wild.

I'd have to go back in past threads to refresh my memory but Herdman's sudden hiring as MNT manager was a shocker, so this would be similar. And there are several examples of NT managers getting encore second stints (granted sometimes for desparation reasons, like trying to salvage a flailing had been found wanting at the end of their first appointment in the job. For me, it definitely shouldn't happen in this situation.  But what we conclude is irrelevant to what the real power players in this set up conclude, and out of the blue (no pun intended, honestly!)) things can and have happened in other scenarios.  And it always seems to be in the back of mind my ever since this organization gassed Zambrano:  which outside the box move might happen next?