Capello to the USA?

[YNWAYNWA]

here's a good rumor for y'all:

Capello was in London with his lawyer son, Pier Filippo, to meet representatives of the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) and had held brief talks afterwards with Mel Goldberg, the sports lawyer. Someone, possibly Goldberg, appears to have taken it upon himself to try to unite Spurs and Capello, but the Italian was quick to distance himself. “At the end of the meeting [with the USSF] I was approached by Mel Goldberg about him being my representative in England,” Capello said. “At no time did I have any contact with Tottenham and I did not come over for the Tottenham job.”

[Der Kaiser]

Just watched Skysports. At the end of the broadcast they mentioned Capello was in London to meet with USSF officials (not spurs as was rumored). Is this old news?? Am I missing something? Is Bradley on the hot seat already, or is Capello being looked at as some soccer czar by Sunil???

[YNWAYNWA]

could Fabio Capello be considering a move to the US?

Capello was in London with his lawyer son, Pier Filippo, to meet representatives of the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) and had held brief talks afterwards with Mel Goldberg, the sports lawyer. Someone, possibly Goldberg, appears to have taken it upon himself to try to unite Spurs and Capello, but the Italian was quick to distance himself. “At the end of the meeting [with the USSF] I was approached by Mel Goldberg about him being my representative in England,” Capello said. “At no time did I have any contact with Tottenham and I did not come over for the Tottenham job.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/tottenham/article2317544.ece

[PsychedelicCeltic]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/tottenham/article2317544.ece

The point of this article is basically HAHA Tottenham are shit, but the reason Don Fabio was in London in the first place is, shall we say, interesting.

Capello was in London with his lawyer son, Pier Filippo, to meet representatives of the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) and had held brief talks afterwards with Mel Goldberg, the sports lawyer. Someone, possibly Goldberg, appears to have taken it upon himself to try to unite Spurs and Capello, but the Italian was quick to distance himself. “At the end of the meeting [with the USSF] I was approached by Mel Goldberg about him being my representative in England,” Capello said. “At no time did I have any contact with Tottenham and I did not come over for the Tottenham job.”

Now why would he be sipping espresso with USSF's people?

[Epikoinos]

toward the bottom of the story about capello and spurs

"I came to London because two weeks ago, I agreed to meet the chairman and the manager of the US national team who wanted my advice on a number of issues," he said.

interesting

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2155386,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=5

[TheBrand]

could Fabio Capello be considering a move to the US?


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/tottenham/article2317544.ece

Oh this is gonna be interesting if it turns out to be something...

[TheBrand]

Here's a recent blog article I found on the Capello meeting.
http://calcio1.blogspot.com/2007/08/fabio-capello-met-with-sunil-gulati-in.html

Fabio Capello:“I came to London because two weeks ago I agreed to meet the chairman and manager of the US national team who wanted my advice on a number of issues.

Does this "asking advice" thing happen often?

[Dirt McGirt]

Hopefully it's in regards to the Technical Director position.

[Parmigiano]

Just saw this:

Capello offers advice to U.S. soccer officials after Americans' worst stretch in 10 years AP Photo BUD127
ROME (AP) - Former Real Madrid coach Fabio Capello has offered some advice to the United States soccer team.
Capello met with U.S. coach Bob Bradley and U.S. soccer federation president Sunil Gulati in London on Thursday.
"They wanted my views for a series of technical questions," Capello was quoted as saying in Friday's Gazzetta dello Sport.
The meeting lasted three hours, according to the Gazzetta.

[Parmigiano]

Could it be for that technical director post? Hmmm....

[YNWAYNWA]

Could it be for that technical director post? Hmmm....
might be on to something there
"They wanted my views for a series of technical questions," Capello was quoted as saying in Friday's Gazzetta dello Sport.

seriously, Capello has not managed a national team -- of all the European managers the USSF could have been chatting with this week about technical questions, wouldn't it have made more sense to hold educational meetings with someone with national team experience (and their attorneys, of course)?
and did the USSF interview, I mean meet with any others?

also FWIW wikipedia reports:
Upon being released by Madrid, Fabio Capello has revealed he is mulling over an offer from Major League Soccer in the United States. On July 16, 2007, Capello told Gazzetta Dello Sport, "They have contacted me from the United States, however I must think about it".

[Dogmatagram]

Goff and others are reporting that Capello is having some sort of discussions with the USSF. Obvious speculation is Technical Director. On the other hand, I think it's safe to assume that Gulati would have hired Capello over BB had Capello been available last spring. My guess is that SG wants to hire him as Technical Director, in order to set up his replacing BB at such point as it becomes professionally acceptable for SG to can BB. Here's a link to Goff's post:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/soccerinsider/

[sidefootsitter]

The "MLS discussion" was never in the original Italian article. It make it into the US wire services and ESPN by speculation with the Galaxy job. I had the recently quoted blogger (look a few posts above) translate the pieces of the original article (he speaks Italian, as one could gather from that site, and we're friends) and there was no mention of MLS in it.

Plus, Capello is still getting paid by Real at about $2M/Y and, IIRC, will be for two more years, as he had an initial 3-year contract with them. That pretty much excludes any low-tier club job.

He could probably collect some money as an "technical advisor" or a "general manager" type.

As to what advise Don Fabio could have given Bradley - as an Italian, Capello loves twin defensive midfielders but, of course, he will push his fullbacks forward fairly aggressively, play with 2 forwards ... and never ask Beasley to play on the right.

[Crimson Ace]

FYI: First few posts may be inconsistent because I merged five threads together.

Edit: I've also moved threads from the Pekerman thread to keep things consistent.

[Parmigiano]

The "MLS discussion" was never in the original Italian article. It make it into the US wire services and ESPN by speculation with the Galaxy job. I had the recently quoted blogger (look a few posts above) translate the pieces of the original article (he speaks Italian, as one could gather from that site, and we're friends) and there was no mention of MLS in it.

Plus, Capello is still getting paid by Real at about $2M/Y and, IIRC, will be for two more years, as he had an initial 3-year contract with them. That pretty much excludes any low-tier club job.

He could probably collect some money as an "technical advisor" or a "general manager" type.

As to what advise Don Fabio could have given Bradley - as an Italian, Capello loves twin defensive midfielders but, of course, he will push his fullbacks forward fairly aggressively, play with 2 forwards ... and never ask Beasley to play on the right.

I really doubt he met with them for three hours to talk about formations and tactics.

The article says they spoke about "technical issues." Make of that what you will, but I don't think Capello goes to London to talk about the empty bucket.

[FirstStar]

I really doubt he met with them for three hours to talk about formations and tactics.

The article says they spoke about "technical issues." Make of that what you will, but I don't think Capello goes to London to talk about the empty bucket.

Probably did-- BB and Sunil want some ammo to reply to SFS's posts on the topic.

[DaPrince84]

Hopefully it's in regards to the Technical Director position.
I hope its for the managerial position

[JuanPeron]

might be on to something there


seriously, Capello has not managed a national team -- of all the European managers the USSF could have been chatting with this week about technical questions, wouldn't it have made more sense to hold educational meetings with someone with national team experience (and their attorneys, of course)?
and did the USSF interview, I mean meet with any others?

also FWIW wikipedia reports:

would you only want someone who has international football ties?

SFS went a post without mentioning Kiev, Rivelino, or Lev Yashin.

Emerson is being sworn in this afternoon.

[vtqn]

What does a technical director do? Spotting talents?

[YNWAYNWA]

just to clarify: I was questioning why the USSF would meet with a club manager (even a legend) if it were just about "technical" issues (e.g., setup)

and did he bring his son/lawyer along just for a free meal?

hmmmmmmmm