Ching Player/Coach

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  1. ShoelessMan

    ShoelessMan In vino veritas!

    Jan 25, 2006
    Houston
    Club:
    AS Roma
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  2. anderson

    anderson Member+

    Feb 28, 2002
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    So, does a part of his salary now move off the player budget?

    If so...brilliant!
     
  3. DrLudicrous

    DrLudicrous Member+

    Jun 28, 2002
    Houston
    I've always wondered about that. If so I don't know why teams aren't full of player/coaches.
     
  4. ImaPuppy

    ImaPuppy Member+

    Aug 10, 2009
    Using too many parentheses
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    Nat'l Team:
    American Samoa
    So, we win MLS Cup this year. Dom goes on to manage the USMNT after Klinsmann gets fired for us not making it out of the group stage, and Chingy becomes the new Dynamo manager.

    Sounds pretty sweet :D
     
  5. anderson

    anderson Member+

    Feb 28, 2002
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    IIRC, Greg Berhalter spent his last year at LAG as a player/coach. Maybe there's a limit on how many you can have.
     
  6. Westside Cosmo

    Westside Cosmo Member+

    Oct 4, 2007
    H-Town
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Two years in a row that the league and union let us subvert the salary cap/budget with Ching. Can't complain now when others do it.
     
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  7. ImaPuppy

    ImaPuppy Member+

    Aug 10, 2009
    Using too many parentheses
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    Nat'l Team:
    American Samoa
    It for sure won't count against the cap? Can anyone confirm this? If so, its hard to see why every single team wouldn't just make their highest paid non-dp a "player coach" to help with cap space..
     
  8. newtex

    newtex Member+

    May 25, 2005
    Houston
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    I'm trying to find the rule (if there is one) but there have been several player-coaches in MLS. My guess is that minutes/games would have to be severely limited to get a reduction in the salary hit against the cap. In addition to Beerhalter at LA, DC has had a couple of player-coaches: Wolff and Stoichkov. Daniel Hernandez was one for FCD. Ramiro Corrales was one for San Jose. I'm sure there have been others.
     
  9. crocken

    crocken Member

    Jan 28, 2011
    MD
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    I feel like Barret or Ralston would be coach, Ching is probably headed more towards Director of Players or Chief Performance Officer or some odd sounding front office type job?
     
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  10. Westside Cosmo

    Westside Cosmo Member+

    Oct 4, 2007
    H-Town
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    How about Player/Accounts Payable Clerk? For all of the FO-Ching public lovefest, this came down to a last-minute atypical deal to either get around a cap issue or more likely, there was a difference in salary or value of Ching. I've asked about this a few times here in the last month because it seemed like there would be no reason to go down to the wire if everyone was on the same page or believed what they were saying.
     
  11. CeltTexan

    CeltTexan Member+

    Sep 21, 2000
    Houston, TX USA
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    OHANU Brian!
     
  12. CeltTexan

    CeltTexan Member+

    Sep 21, 2000
    Houston, TX USA
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    OHANU Brian!
     
  13. The_Ponce

    The_Ponce Co-President of the United States of Dynamo

    Feb 21, 2011
    Houston, Texas, U.S.
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #ChingForPresident
     
  14. Levy2k6

    Levy2k6 BigSoccer Supporter

    Dec 19, 2010
    Section 129, Row A
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  15. anderson

    anderson Member+

    Feb 28, 2002
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Canetti says Ching will go to the FO:

     

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