New England’s 1-0 win over FC Dallas on a Carles Gil penalty kick earned Coach Bruce Arena his 241st MLS victory, which makes him the league’s all-time winningest coach. MLS all-time winningest coaches Bruce Arena 241 Sigi Schmid 240 Bob Bradley 182 Peter Vermes 171 Dominic Kinnear 170 After the game, Arena shared his memories […]
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Watch: New England Revs' birthday surprise for Bruce Arena
Upon his 70th birthday earlier this week, MLS’s first-place team surprised its coach during a pre-practice meeting. Bruce Arena, who turned 70 on Sept. 21, is aiming for his sixth MLS Cup title. He won his first at age 45 with D.C. United in MLS’ inaugural season of 1996. His first of five NCAA D1 […]
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Bruce says …
“I don’t think there’s been much of a connection to the people that helped build this United. There’s a great distance — why, I don’t know, but we haven’t hadreally any kind of contact or association. I certainly do with [D.C. United coach] Ben [Olsen]. Ben is a fabulous person, feels like a son, actually. […]
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Bruce Arena 'proud' of Revs after turnaround continues with win at Galaxy
Maybe, Bruce Arena just might beon to something in New England. After his first game on the sidelines, he admitted the Revs have some work to do, but they suddenly find themselves only two points below the red lineafter being in the Eastern Conference basement three weeks earlier. In his first game since Arena took […]
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Bruce says …
“It was nice. You know, I have nothing but great memories, win, lose or draw, and this is never going to be an environment that I don’t feel comfortable in. I am proud to have been here.Some lady was nice enough to come up to me and apologize for her husband yelling at me. I […]
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Bruce says …
“I’m always coaching. Coaches always coach. In the last year and a half, I’ve been the best NBA coach, NFL coach, baseball coach, and hockey coach. I’m like you guys. You knowhow smart you get when you’re not actually doing it every day and you can sit in the press box or in front of […]
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Boston-bound Bruce Arena: 'This city is a potential home run for the sport of soccer'
Bruce Arena started out tentatively, but by the end ofThursday’s press conference to introduce the new New England Revolution head coach and sporting director to the Boston media, it was the old Bruce, confident, cutting, defiant. Arena wasreluctant to say what what he planned to do to shake up the Revs. First, the hire came […]
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Bruce Arena faces his toughest rebuilding job at New England
For the third time in his career, Bruce Arena has been taskedwith an MLS rebuilding job. In 2006, shortly after his contract as the U.S. men’s national team coach was not renewed following its poor showing at the World Cup in Germany, he was giventhe job of head coach and sporting director at the New […]
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The Bruce Arena Book: Why it's worth reading despite the T&T ending
The Bruce Arena book is so good it’d be ripe for a screenplay, if only it had a Hollywood ending. TriStar Pictures turned the strikeout by Bernard Malamud‘s Roy Hobbs into a Robert Redford home run in “The Natural.” But the Arena book, the entertaining and informative memoir from America’s greatest soccer coach, is non-fiction. […]
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Dave Sarachan: On January camp, Jonathan Gonzalez, Couva and youth development
Never before has U.S. head coach Dave Sarachan been in his current position as caretaker manager during a turbulent transition period. His contract with U.S. Soccer runs until the end ofMarch. Sarachan, 63, grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and played several pro seasons in the old NASL and MISL before starting his coaching career in […]