And the new coach?
Ok so Bruce stepped down a while ago, either that or his contract wasn't renewed at this point I am not sure. July 9th was the end of the tournament and it is now two months later and there is no USA national team coach. While I believe Mooch is still in charge as interim there needs to be a head coach and soon. England knew who the next coach would be before the tournament. South Africa got a new coach right after along with Germany and Italy, both countries didn't wait longer than two weeks.
Klinsmann seemed to be the perfect match - speaks English, lives in the states, got Germany to the semi finals(when no one thought they had a chance). However the current US Soccer president seems to be in no rush. He is even making a list, which has been said to include DC United coach Novak. But for more competition to Klinsmann comes Jose Pekerman.
As the article states Pekerman is a possible for the US coaching slot although he doesn't speak English but has a lot of past history with youth development. The main problem right now is money. The head of US Soccer is known for being stingy. He was once with the NE Revolution and kept their payroll the lowest in the league, but this is one position that money shouldn't be the biggest problem but the vacancy there is right now.
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I don't know much about Pekerman beyond his having been quite successful as a youth coach. It seemed to me that the final game Agentina lost in the WC (against Germany?), the team played very tenatively and he didn't use Lionel Messi very well, particularly in that game. I also think the ability to speak English would come in handy -- Keller and Donovan speak Spanish and others may as well, and there have been coaches of other national teams who didn't speak the same language of the team, I still think it would be better if the coach and the players have a common language.
Both Novak and Klinsmann would be good choices. I'd lean towards the German, if for no other reason than his immediate past experience with the GNT.
did anyone see Bruce's comments in the paper earlier this week? he speculated that the new coach would be an american and showed continued resentment towards the federation president.
i vote for klinsman, but really say "anyone but Sven."
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