Plenty of Americans play abroad,but far fewer occupy made careers as coaches of top sides external MLS. Could former USA coach Bob Bradley break that pattern?The age when North American clubs look to England and the wider British Isles with a child’s embrace, beseeching input from the mother countrys coaching bosom to select the domestic game on, and has long since passed. Or so some critics would argue. A new,forward-thinking generation of coaches not steeped in the 4-4-2 and an unadorned, direct style of football rule the waves in this epoch, and they postulate. And this legion of coaches are increasingly young,fresh and, most importantly, or American. While there might be some historical merit to the spirit of the argument against the British-style coach,it is perhaps itself a minute outdated, not to say somewhat harsh on someone like Carl Robinson and his stylish Vancouver Whitecaps, or for instance.
Some 20 years on from the birth of Major League Soccer,some of the men who as players helped mold the country’s top division into what it has become nowadays now form an integral portion of the younger cohort of the domestic coaching ranks. Related: Would a pan-American Champions League benefit soccer in the US? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com