MLS coaches (current and potential) and coaching thread

Romain Alessandrini has 9 goals 10 assists so far in his first season... GDS had 14 goals 12 assists last season... they brought in JDS who starts for Mexico and came from freaking Villareal... also those three are ages 28, 28. and 27... how are those "millstones of DPs"??

I would think not, but then again Kinnear did better last season with guys like Innocent Emeghara and Simon Dawkins as DPs than Sigi is currently doing with Alessandrini and the Dos Santos brothers... anyone is making excuses for Sigi having that trio of DPs should check out Innocent Emeghara's stats.

 

Report: Ex-Union boss Hackworth a Rapids candidate

 

Potentially some big news in Montreal:

Arrived in Montreal-told Alessandro Nesta will leave @TheMiamiFC & replace Mauro Biello @impactmontreal '18-source 100% certain #IMFC #MLS

— Glenn Crooks (@GlennCrooks) September 27, 2017

With NASL about to go under, will we see Nesta in Montreal and Savarese in New England? What about others like Dos Santos?

 

Looks like there's nothing of substance to back up this rumor, but:

Xabi Alonso as an MLS manager? It's not out of the question

 

The LA Galaxy blow a 1-0 lead at home, despite RSL playing with 10 men from the 14th minute... they gave up a 95th minute equalizer to old man Kyle Beckerman of all people.

2017 LA Galaxy
Curt Onalfo: 1.1 PPG
Sigi Schmid: 0.58 PPG

Under Sigi:
12 games, 1W 4D 7L... 10 GF 25 GA, -15 GD
And the lone Galaxy win was 3-0 over lowly Colorado...


Despite Sigi managing only half the PPG of Schmetzer in Seattle last season and now about half of Onalfo's PPG in LA, he only has one vote in the poll, the same number as Pareja and Vieira. Meanwhile Robinson (currently in first place) has 2 votes, and Paunovic has 4 votes...

The Galaxy are now dead last in all of MLS, which is the lowest (22nd place) any team has been this late in the season in league history

 

Petke, RSL energized after comeback: "This is why I'm in this sport"


Kyle Beckerman:

Staff a couple years ago they did some bad things to this team. We’re trying to build it back, and Mike [Petke]’s got us in the right direction.”​

Ouch, Beckerman and Jeff Cassar never seemed to see eye to eye, but I thought it was mostly a 4-4-2 diamond vs 4-3-3 thing, this makes it sound bigger than that. Cassar may have difficulty getting another high level coaching job after how things went at RSL, but Richie Williams was assistant with that team and is now with the USMNT (and may have it out for a certain young American at Schalke) despite doing terribly with the U-17s over two cycles (failing to qualify in 2013, finishing last in the group in 2015)...

 

Reports: Montreal Impact set for coaching change ahead of 2018 season


Both journalists also state that former Impact defender and Italian legend Alessandro Nesta, who currently coaches top NASL side Miami FC, is a “person of interest” who could replace Biello. But Moffat notes that Nesta cannot yet be formally approached about such a move, likely due to his current duties in Miami.

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Biello’s all-time record in charge of the Impact is currently 37W-33L-22D, though Montreal are 1W-7L-0D since late August, a skid that has nearly eliminated them from postseason contention despite the opening created by a similar slump on the part of the sixth-place New York Red Bulls.

 

Kurt Larson: Top 5 MLS general managers and technical directors of 2017

5. Craig Waibel (GM, Real Salt Lake)

4. Nelson Rodriguez (GM, Chicago Fire)

3. Tim Bezbatchenko (GM, Toronto FC)

2. Peter Vermes (Manager & Technical Director, Sporting KC)

1. Carlos Bocanegra (Technical Director, Atlanta United)

Hmm, what about NYCFC, Columbus, Vancouver, Houston...

 

Freedman: How the decision to replace a head coach can make or break a club


A 2014 study by Mexican publication El Economista found MLS beat out nine other top leagues around the world for manager longevity, including the Premier League, La Liga, the Bundesliga, Serie A and Liga MX. (And let’s take a quick second to spare a thought for head coaches in Brazil’s top flight, who last an inconceivable 0.4 seasons on average!)

Even in this bloodbath of a season for head coaches, MLS currently has 11 gaffers who have been at the helm for longer than that 2.6-season average.

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For as nurturing a league as MLS can be, patience isn’t indefinite.

The first-timers’ club lost a few from their ranks this year as Jeff Cassar (Dec. 2013 to March 2017), Pablo Mastroeni (March 2014 to Aug. 2017) and Jay Heaps (Nov. 2011 to Sept. 2017) all were all let go in midseason. Each was given at least three years to work and they experienced some limited success during their respective tenures, but none were able to consummate them with a title.

And as we head toward the offseason, you can bet the seats are getting warmer for guys like Montreal's Mauro Biello (head coach since Aug. 2015) and Philadelphia's Jim Curtin (head coach since June 2014).

But as a new trend emerges in MLS – that of foreign coaches coming into the league and actually succeeding for the first time – so is the likelihood that a former player can step in and do just as well. All he needs is space and time.

That is, if you can manage to keep the faith for about 2.6 years or so.

 

Revolution reportedly interview former Argentina National Team coach
Daniel Passarella has interviewed for the Revs head coaching job, per his agent.


Wikipedia:

Coaching career

Appointed as coach of the Argentine national team to replace Alfio Basile, Passarella was coach during the qualification games for the 1998 World Cup and during the competition itself, which was held in France. Passarella held to close friend Américo Gallego as assistant coach. Passarella had banned long hair, earrings and homosexuals in his squad, leading to disputes with several players.[12][13] Fernando Redondo and Claudio Caniggia eventually refused to play for Passarella and were excluded from the squad.[14] Argentina's performances never reached the expected heights, and the team was eliminated in the quarter-finals after a last minute 2–1 defeat to the Netherlands. After the elimination, Passarella left the post and was replaced by Marcelo Bielsa.
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Also, looks like he hasn't coached in a decade:

1989–1994 River Plate
1994–1998 Argentina
1999–2001 Uruguay
2001 Parma
2002–2004 Monterrey
2005 Corinthians
2006–2007 River Plate​

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world_cup_98/teams/argentina/players/85306.stm

As a coach he is a strict disciplinarian. At the start of 1998 he told the Real Madrid midfielder Fernando Redondo that he would not pick him unless he got his hair cut. Redondo complied, but Passarella is still not satisfied and his place in the national team is still in doubt.

Along with long hair, Passarella has also banned homosexuals and says earrings are forbidden. At the World Cup players' wives and girlfriends are banned from the training camp - although they have been allowed to fly to France.​