Boston attorney Steve Gans, who has been involved in soccer as a player, parent, attorney and adviser for 40 years, says he is considering a run for U.S. Soccer president, a position SunilGulati has held unchallenged since 2006. Gulati was elected to successive four-year terms in 2006, 2010 and 2014. New U.S. Soccer term limits […]
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What They're Saying: Sunil Gulati
“The president is fully supportive. My guess is that in the not-too-distant future you’ll see further confirmation of that from Washington, and in Washington.” — U.S. Soccer presidentSunil Gulati, hinting that a meeting of leaders of the World Cup 2026 bid by the USA, Canada and Mexico with President Donald Trump might take place in […]
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What They're Saying: Sunil Gulati
“The key principles [were] we felt we should host a lion’s share of games, and if we went alone, potentially had the strongest bid. Mexico and Canada then had to assess the same thing wedid.” — U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati on the leverage the USA had in reaching an agreement with Mexico and USA […]
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World Cup 2026 bid: Mexico left with 'crumbs'
For the first country to host the World Cup twice — in 1970 and 1986 — Mexico reacted poorly to the idea that it could get to host just 10 of the 80 games at the 2026 World Cup, as proposed in thejoint bid announced by the presidents of the U.S., Canadian and Mexican federations […]
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World Cup 2026 bid: What we know and don't know
The USA, Canada and Mexico announced plans to submit a unified bid to host the 2026 World Cup. Here’s what we know and don’t know about the bid announced Monday by U.S. Soccer president SunilGulati, Concacaf and CSA president Victor Montagliani (left in photo) and Mexican federation president Decio de Maria (right) at New York’s One World […]
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What They're Saying: Sunil Gulati
“There are a number of issues that come up with that particular format of competition, but the biggest one is it’s not the rules of the game that people bought into when they made investments,whether it’s in the USL, the NASL or MLS. It’s not the rules that we set out when teams came in. […]
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What They're Saying: Sunil Gulati
“We haven’t made any commitments about ’26. The rules still haven’t been completely clarified, although more of them are now known in terms of numbers of teams, joint bids, but the process is stillvery much up in the air. Until we know more about that we’ll sit tight. We’re challenged by a number of things […]
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Column: Time to signal for substitution at top of U.S. Soccer
The Washington Post’s long-time soccer reporter, Steven Goff, argues that Sunil Gulati, president of U.S. Soccer since 2006, should step down at the end of his current term, in 2018, andnot accept a fourth term, as he would likely be able to do even if proposed U.S. Soccer rule changes would allow him to stay […]
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Bruce Arena: 'I would have done this for free'
It all came quickly. First, losses to Mexico and Costa Rica that put Jurgen Klinsmann‘s jeopardy. Then his firing on Monday that led U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati and CEO/secretarygeneral to approach LA Galaxy management about speaking to Bruce Arena. By late morning on Tuesday, Arena was back as U.S. national team coach, a job […]
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Gulati: Two losses were final straw for Klinsmann
Ten days after saying he expected Jurgen Klinsmann would be the USA’s head coach through the Hexagonal, like every previous national team coach, Sunil Gulati fired him. Whatchanged? In a conference call with the media on Tuesday with new national team coach Bruce Arena, Gulati said, “None of us expected the two results we got.” […]