“I was asked a simple question. I’m going to have a lot of time on my hands moving forward. Maybe [U.S. Soccer president] Sunil [Gulati] will ask me to be the men’s coach.That’s a joke, people.” — Abby Wambach, asked after her final game on Wednesday night to explain her comments on a Bill Simmons […]
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Alohagate, U.S. Soccer's black eye and just what is its mission?
U.S. Soccer’s Victory Tour, intended to celebrate the 2015 Women’s World Cup championship, blew up in its face when Sunday’s game against Trinidad & Tobago at Honolulu’s Aloha Stadium wascanceled. Millions of Americans will remember soccer in 2015 for the U.S. women’s thrilling run to the world title in Canada, but for thousands of Hawaiians […]
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What They're Saying: Sunil Gulati
“I was at the final games in Chile. Looking at the finalists and seeing what the games were like, we are long way off from what Nigeria and Mali were at and frankly Mexico against Belgium. Sothat raises some concerns on the player development side, for sure.” — Sunil Gulati on the disappointing showing of […]
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What They're Saying: Sunil Gulati
“I don’t know anyone who would say, ‘No matter what happens, this is what we are going to do.’ That would be silly. We expect to qualify, we expect Jurgen to be the coach, butI don’t think anyone can honestly say, ‘Regardless of what happens, this is what we’re going to do.’ It’s unrealistic.” — […]
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Gulati: 'I expect Jurgen to be the coach'
U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati spoke with reporters at a media roundtable before Friday’s USA-St. Vincent & the Grenadines game and said he expectedJurgen Klinsmann will remain the coach but he admitted no one was guaranteed job security, not him, not his coach or others at U.S. Soccer. “We expect toqualify, I expect Jurgen to […]
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What They're Saying: Chris Eaton
“The reality is you have to deal with the way in which the public are perceiving this today and the best way to respond to the public’s need for information is for people in authority tospeak. When they stonewall and don’t speak, all they do is cement in the minds of the public that there’s […]
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Gulati dodges media questions after speech
U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati made a rare public statement on Wednesday — participating in a Q&A session with Democratic political consultant James Carville at the conference organized by the Qatar-backed International Centre for Sport Security — but he refused to address media questions afterwards aboutthe ongoing FIFA scandals.
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U.S. Gulf politics, the FIFA presidency and Bahraini sheikh who wants the job
If Sunil Gulati was Michel Platini and Barack Obama was Nicolas Sarkozy, U.S. Soccer might be voting for Bahrain’s Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa for FIFA president. But Gulatiisn’t Platini and Obama isn’t Sarkozy, and Gulati won’t be seeking out Obama’s advice on who to vote for the next FIFA president who will be elected […]
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Looming World Cup qualifying fight adds to USA's unsettling picture
By Paul Kennedy (@pkedit) Jurgen Klinsmann spent all yearhyping up the 2017 Confederations Cup to which the USA would have qualified by winning either the 2015 Gold Cup or the one-off Concacaf Cup. Neither happened so it’s on to the next task: qualify forthe 2018 World Cup. Indeed, all the talk about the importance of […]