MLS Coaching and Front Office - News & Discussion Thread 2019

Benny Feilhaber and Sal Zizzo.

Edit:
https://twitter.com/bennysalpodcast?lang=en

And like the old video show, Ike Opara has joined the crew after being a guest.

 

Your daily dose of ROFTL
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anthony-hudson-football-manager/id1482065104

(Anthony Hudson has started his own podcast called 'Masterminds'. The one Rapids fan who took the hit for us and listened said it was awful.)

 

How Colorado's Robin Fraser is breaking ground for black coaches in MLS

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...aser-colorado-rapids-african-american-coaches

Going back to our "African American coaches" discussion this article calls Fraser an African American, and talks about him returning to his "native Denver", then later calls him Jamaican-American. Fraser didn't move to Denver for the first time until after college and yes, was born in Jamaica.

 

FWIW, Ivan McKinley would also count as "African-American." Not that he's coaching anywhere or anything, but it can get confusing when you keep trying to put people into boxes when it really doesn't fit.

 

Would Alan Koch count? He's more African-Canadian, American.

 

Interesting that two of the most successful African Americans that retired this year (Beasley and Howard) seem to be moving away from the coaching scene...could be personal reasons or something more cultural (I have no idea).

 

The writer was obviously confused by the legalization of pot.

 

Perhaps they're just following paths that they find of interest or they want to explore. Just spitballing here.

Look, this isnt the NFL which is chock a block full.of American black men who want to try coaching.

The list of successful black American players is a pretty short one. More than a few have had fairly lengthy runs but no one is clamoring for Marvell Wynne to come in and take the reins

Guys like Earnie Stewart ( who could get a coaching job any time he wanted) and Robin Fraser are rare.

( Although the sight of a bunch of white middle class internet shut ins filling BigSoccer with arguments about who is authentically black or American or black American to suit their personal standards is always good for a chuckle)

As much as so many people want desperately to turn this into a racial.thing,-the same people who want to turn EVERYTHING - into a racial thing, btw, it seems to me that unless and until we get more young black players entering the system we arent going to have that many candidates entering the coaching ranks 15 years later.

I'm prepared.for the requisite moral outrage.

 

Good news for them and surprising. Monterey seems like a better job.

 

Maybe they weren't willing to buy out his contract?

 

Who you calling "them"? And Monterey is Quakes territory.

 

For all the problems with Chicago, Nelson Rodriguez had zero to do with death of Chivas USA. Yes, he was there, but that's like being told to sit the pilot seat with locked controls right before it hits a mountainside. He was hospice for Chivas USA. Now the Chicago Fire on the other hand, that's a fair discussion.

 

I remember working for a supermarket chain in my high school and college years. The company had one store manager who would get transferred to stores right before they closed them, that was his specialty. He would manage them up until shutdown, determine which employees were worth keeping at other stores and such.
I'm pretty sure that was Nelson's role at Chives, their fate was determined before he got there abd selling tickets wasn't a focus. Makes me wonder if the future of the Fire may have been looking different in Chicago when he came aboard.

 

Yeah, I mean he was hired in early 2014 after MLS bought the team and was looking for a new LA owner. By then even MLS admitted that Chivas was dead as they stated in the piece announcing his hiring that "The club will play as Chivas USA during the 2014 MLS season and will be rebranded with a new team name and logo as determined by the new ownership group". But he killed Chivas USA? Yeah, that is a big old no.

 

I don't know if it is true, but there are suspicions that Nelson was brought in to the Chicago FO by MLS. The Fire fans cannot figure out why he was given a 5 year contract. The Fire won back to back spoons, made the play in game, then bad again. Most owners would have fired both him and the coach, but the coach was given an extension, inexplicably. We wonder if Nelson was brought in as a caretaker to facilitate the sale to a big money owner (Joe Mansueto). After all, Nelson still lives in New Jersey.

We all know that Chivas USA was only mop up duty for MLS and Nelson, but if you combined Nelson's stint as GM for the Metrostars and Fire, it is not good.

 

We'll know his role for certain if he takes Jordan's job when he is finally fired for his incompetence.

 

Diego Alonso declined a job offer from Orlando claiming that "MLS is of low quality". He is set to coach in the Arabian League instead.

 

So MLS didn't offer enough money it seems.