Our Long National Nightmare Is Over

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U.S. Soccer Team Dismisses Manager (NYT):

Bruce Arena’s eight-year reign as the manager of the United States men’s national soccer team is over.

Sunil Gulati, the Columbia University economics professor who was elected last March as the president of the United States Soccer Federation, said in a telephone conference call today that a worldwide search will begin soon for Arena’s replacement. Gulati, Arena and Dan Flynn, the federation’s general secretary, held a five-hour meeting on Thursday at La Guardia Airport. Arena’s contract is due to expire at the end of the year.

“We reached a decision that will not be renewing Bruce’s contract,” Gulati said.

Five hours. I wonder what part of that took longer than five minutes.

Comments

  1. jamie beth says:
    July 16, 2006 at 4:03 pm

    what’s the opposite of rolling over in one’s grave? whatever it is, that’s what cohen sr. is doing. though he’s pissed it took this long.

  2. tina harris says:
    July 17, 2006 at 12:18 am

    I could gag, not because I live in CA, where the expression became famous in the 80s, but the BS before the USA team started playing. I followed the Cup on Globo, where at least they know how to narrate futebol instead of counting how many times the ball went to the left or center or percet this or that.

    As sure as I am the USA needs another generation to do something more remarkable at a world cup, I was that France would not make it against Italy. Time playing the cup counts. Tradition.

    As for the jogo bonito folks, I would recommend Brazil use players who stay in Brazil and train these. Just like Li’l Johnny Taylor used to sing,

    “Cheaper to keep her”

    Thanks for a blog so cool to visit.