I’ll take Nancy and his imperfect English over Tata and his nonexistent English, or Porter and his fluent English. Who cares.
Coaches never tell you anything anyway. I have no doubt he and his team can communicate effectively with the team, which is the only thing that matters.
Here's the list off the top of my head. Timo Liekowski Tom Fitzgerald Nee Interim HC Robert Warzycha (right?) Sigi Schmid How could I forget about RW in here? *Smacks head* Interim HC Brian Bliss (right?) Gregggggg Berhalter Caleb Porter Wilifred Nancy Could it be argued that Caleb Porter's separation from Portland wasn't a firing since it was mutual? Nee started as the Columbus GK coach in 1996 or maybe 1997. Before that, he was the Wright State coach and left that directly for the Crew job.
Was he still serving as technical director then? If you don't include that situation OR Caleb's mutual separation from Portland, it was probably Nee. Sidenote: I believe we only had two coaches who weren't fired. Sigi and Gregg. Through the years, I've seen mentions of Timo Liekowski resigning, but I've also seen reports he was fired. Who the hell knows there.
Sigi was infamously fired from LA while being in first place. The correct answer I believe is Andrulis, although it is possible Im wrong about that.
We're screwed. He's gonna trapezoid important matches on the calendar/schedule and the team is gonna have no idea what he means.
If you're trying to go chronologically, Bliss was the interim after they canned the Polish Rifle, who took over from Sigi. And Liekoski wasn't fired although he should have been. He resigned.
After listening to two seasons Porter's clueless babble, having a coach who's less fluent in English doublespeak might be refreshing.
Yeah, when speaking a foreign language, one is forced to be more direct. You’re (until fluency is achieved) unable to speak in idioms or cliches, can dance around issues with big fancy words, buzz words and word salads aren’t possible. You just say what you mean in as clear a way as possible. If something is bad, you’ll just say it’s bad instead of going on a five minute ramble about what the definition of “is” is. I watched a Montreal game last year at some point, and they grabbed Nancy for the end of first half interview. I fully understood what he said and what he meant. His English is fine. Probably better than some of the players. Man has been living in Canada since 2005, he has a handle on the language.
Because MLS is an abbreviation for Major League Soccer. We say "the NHL" because we're talking about the National Hockey League. When someone says "the MLS" they're saying "the Major League Soccer" which makes no sense. It'd be llike saying "I'm standing outside the Nationwide Arena."
we are hung up on "the MLS' yet MLS continues to use https://www.mlssoccer.com (the) Major League Soccer Soccer .com
Let's try other phrases people use with MLS. Roster rules. Salary cap. Parity. This is the same league where an expansion team can lose players in the expansion draft.