Callaghan also said that Hudson very much wanted the chance to be a head coach in the club game again, which wasn't happening with US Soccer anytime soon. I'm sure the Middle Eastern gig is fairly lucrative as well and hard to turn that down when you have no guarantee of anything post Nations League and Gold Cup from US Soccer.
Gotcha. I misunderstood you. For Hudson, it was a job as he searched for other jobs. For Callaghan, this is a great step up -- there's not a ton of downside for him here. Definitely will increase his profile.
If the only reason for an interim coach to take a position is to win that position, you may be mostly right but taking an interim position isn't necessarily a bad career choice. as far as what his performance tells us about the coach depends largely upon what challenges the coach has had to face and what he has been asked to do. We (or at least I) don't have a clue as to what USSF has instructed him regarding their expectations and instructions so they can evaluate based upon that but I can't. If an interim coach is faced with a difficult situation (end of season, important/critical tournaments etc) his performance can add or subtract, but the bottom line is that any coaching hire at any level will be based upon the entire body of the coach's career with extra weight given to importance of competition and recentness. Obviously, the interim's tenure with the National team is most recent but were the competitions important enough and the results eyecatching enough to move the needle for him? Remember, by definition, an interim manager is not being evaluated for the job. Assuming he isn't in line for he job and has extremely little chance of getting it....what's in it for him? Like you said, money, but I think there is a bit more: I don't think his club resume is all that impressive and he needs a little boost. Perhaps the exposure from the job gives him that. It also relieves some of the time pressure to get a new job....he is getting paid and I am sure he has been looking for his next gig. Or perhaps he just needed a bit more time to decide upon his next move. Having a short time gig isn't a bad thing to help relieve some of the pressure that comes from not having a paycheck. Theses are just a few off the top of my head...perhaps some aren't really valid or applicable but I do believe there might be more in it for him than JUST a paycheck.
Sure, but money as the motivator and autonomy are inversely correlated in the vast majority of instances.
Definitely less your ignorance and more my inability to write clearly. I was trying to say that an interim with significant autonomy has more motivating factors than a straight caretaker. Howard Schultz would be an extreme example. The dudes taking over the USMNT are obviously straight caretakers, so mostly a money deal. Not a thing wrong with it, and I agree that there are other benefits to them.
I imagine Callaghan is positioning himself to stay as an assistant to the new coach. If not that to get hired by another staff as an assistant.
I think for someone like Callaghan it’s not just about the money and more about furthering his own career. He’s never been a head coach before. If he does well in the Nations League or Gold Cup, it gets him on the radar with MLS teams for head coaching jobs and potentially gets him in the running for the U23 job. Of course he’s getting paid for it, but it’s more about the opportunity itself for a younger coach like Callaghan. More broadly he’s been an assistant for the last 4 years and has some investment in the program overall.
If Berhalter is named as manager, then it must be that we are trapped in a galaxy where Chicago House thinks we're about to watch "The Empire Strikes Back!". but it's far more likely that it would lead to an endless loop of "The Rise of Skywalker".
I don't think they are related. Any new coach might want a few of the existing coaches for institutional knowledge. The American coaches probably already know while foreign coaches will want a few American assistants I'd guess.
Noticed we still don’t know where Anthony Hudson went to ? #USMNT— Dhan (@Dhaneye) June 5, 2023 um we do know:
Former #USMNT interim head coach and assistant Anthony Hudson has his new job. Hudson announced on his Instagram that he’s joined Qatari side Al-Markhiya SC. pic.twitter.com/4B2rT2tz4U— Larry Henry Jr (@lhenry019) June 6, 2023
Dude really bailed on the Nations League and Gold Cup for a Qatari team that just got promoted? AH must really love the long term soccer vision of this club no one has ever heard of before today...
The long term vision he loves is that he'll be in the job longer than 2 more months. I'd imagine it pays pretty well.
From what people like Tenorio and Bogarts have said it was basically job security. USSF wouldn't commit to anything beyond his current contract Also with when the league starts and when the Gold Cup final is he likely wanted to get involved asap
It could be a life changing contract the way they overpay. I imagine most of us wouldn't turn that down and while he was decent for the US he didn't have a good track record in MLS and I expect no difference with the newest caretaker as the players will mostly coach themselves and it is possible Ream is an uncredited coach.
No way I'd stay at a temp job with a boss who openly told me I was not even in consideration for the full-time gig if another full-time job came along, especially one that paid better. Makes perfect sense to me.
Just an update, Anthony Hudson I think only lasted a few matches as manager of Al Markhiya and eventually moved up as technical director. He's been pretty active presenting on Bein Sports here in Qatar with Richard Keys and Andy Gray... rumor has it he's just become the new manager of Al Arabi. That's a big step up from Markhiya. Arabia are bottom of the Qatar Stars League, but they are a relatively big club in Qatar having won the Emir Cup back in 2023, a bunch of things in the 90s, and consistently finishing in the top half of the Qatari league these last couple of years. Gabriel Batistuta played for Al Arabi, and Marco Veratti is probably their biggest current player Hudson replaces Ali as Al Arabi coach - Gulf Times (gulf-times.com)
Is there a reasonable argument that the absence of Hudson and BJ during Gregg’s second cycle contributed to the team’s downturn in form? I’m not at all certain what roles the two assistants played under Berhalter—or who exactly replaced them—so I wouldn’t responsibly make the claim. But considering how the team performed under them (and how both now have held decent head coaching roles, arguably as competitive as any on Gregg’s CV prior to coaching the US) it’s a compelling thought. How influential was having cooperative coaching talent like Anthony and BJ behind Gregg in that first cycle?
If you're going that route, then the natural assistant to single out would be Estevez. He was on board for all of the team's improvement, and he was gone by the stretch of WC22 qualifying where the stagnation became evident. But if we're serious about the source of the team's improvement, that really came from a massive influx of talent. The good news is that the same talent is available to Poch and his staff. Hopefully, they can make better use of it.