tmcmurph Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/28/u-s-mens-soccer-coach-bradley-fired/?hpt=hp_t2 So will Vancouver or Montreal put him on their coaches list? Hell of a record to fire a guy with (43-25-12). No real reason just "time to move on" type explanation. Weird. I would not have figured this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianSpur Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 There had been a few rumours about Bradley after the Gold Cup. Would be a great signing for the 'Caps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpoma Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 According to the article, he just signed a 4 year deal recently. Nice severance package. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soccerpro Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 He would make an excellent MLS coach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKottonmouthed1555362307 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 The caps would be smart to contact him quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marauder Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Klinsman is in replacing him. Offical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keano Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 The caps would be smart to contact him quickly. AS would the Impact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldtimer Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 He would make an excellent MLS coach. He was already an excellent MLS coach. He guided the Fire into winning the MLS Cup in their expansion year, the only MLS team ever to do so. Mind you, it was the very early years of the league (every team was to some extent, an expansion team), but it was still a stellar achievement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearcatSA Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Hell of a record to fire a guy with (43-25-12). No real reason just "time to move on" type explanation. Weird. I would not have figured this one. The definitions for success have certainly changed in recent years for the USMNT. To say that the pre-GC loss to Spain at home was not taken very well by Gulati et. al. is an understatement and then losing a second consecutive GC final to Mexico didn't help matters. It's not about the past, it's about what you are doing now and where you can go in the future that counts in this business. I guess they felt that he had reached his ceiling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmcmurph Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 The definitions for success have certainly changed in recent years for the USMNT. To say that the pre-GC loss to Spain at home was not taken very well by Gulati et. al. is an understatement and then losing a second consecutive GC final to Mexico didn't help matters. It's not about the past, it's about what you are doing now and where you can go in the future that counts in this business. I guess they felt that he had reached his ceiling. If the USSF thinks they are better than Mexico much less Spain then they are delusional. Tim Howard had a game and a half doing his god like keeping and they pulled off the biggest upset in recent memory at the ConfedCup and almost 2 of them. To expect the team to crack the top 10 at this stage is not happening. Stay in the top 20-25 and improve gradually. Breaking into the top 10 will require a hell of a lot more time. Especially when you see Chile, Uruguay and other South American teams taking it up a notch or three. Improvements from here on up for the USA will be hard to come by. If they did get Klinsman then it is an upgrade. Must be nice to have a serious budget to give a coach a 3 year paid holiday/bonus and still have enough to shell out for another very expensive one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKottonmouthed1555362307 Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Bradley has connections to Whitecaps management and players. First Tom Soehn, was apart of the Chicago Fire's expansion MLS Open Cup and MLS Championship season both in 98', and stayed playing under Bradley till he retired and landed his first management stint assistant to Bob Bradley with the Fire. Denis Hamlett(Caps Assistant Coach) also connected to Bradley as an assistant coach at the Fire, during Bradley's entire tenure there. DeMerit came up with the Fire academy when Bradley was Managing, before going off to Europe to earn his stripes and eventually earned his first US call-up a year after Bradley took over for the National team. So maybe the stars will align for the Caps, to get a very qualified coach to take over and steer this club to the top of the MLS. Soehn, Hamlett and DeMerit could be key to bring him to Vancouver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the biologist Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 ^ As a soccer fan supporting an upgrade of the sport's state north of the US border, seeing how poorly Toronto has been since their MLS debut and now Vancouver, that would definitely be good news. But as an Impact supporter, man that would be hard to accept on the other hand. That's what soccer has as an impact (no pun intended) on us here, we so much want to show the US we can do as good but damn at the same time you're a f*cking rival !!! I hate the Whitecaps and hope we'll kick your asss next year !!!! But I don't want the US teams to occupy seeds 1 to 16 next year neither ! So hard to be a soccer fan here, makes us having continuously ambivalent feelings, really hard... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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