It’s been quite the four days for Bruce Arena. On Friday, US Soccer announced that they would not be retaining Arena’s services as head coach of the men’s national team. Today, the worst team in the history of MLS, RedBull NY (formerly Metrostars), have named him Sporting Director and Head Coach.
There’s no arguing with Arena’s track record (bar the most recent World Cup). He does have a history of success. One needs to remember how bad the situation was when he started as head coach of the US team. The squad had finished dead last at France ‘98, and by the next World Cup, they were in the quarters.
It was obvious that he chose the absolute wrong tactics in Germany, but here in MLS he gets a new slate. He certainly has nowhere to go but up.
I’d love to hear Scott H’s thoughts on this.
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A good decision among many bad ones for the FC fka the Metrostars, which by the way I have written off. We’ll see if it pays divedends. Right now, my attention is on an even bigger mockery of a sports franchise, the NY Islanders. How can a club fire a respected GM (Neil Smith) after only six weeks on the job and replace him with the backup goalie(Garth Snow) and be taken seriously. WTH. Snow’s first order of business is signing the starting goaltender to a long-term contract. aaagh. I feel like I’m having a Lewis Black moment and I thought a soccer club being replaced by an energy drink was a joke.
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