He even tweeted a letter more than an hour ago It has been an incredible privilege to serve as the President of U.S. Soccer. My one and only mission has always been to do what is best for our Federation. After discussions with the Board of Directors, I have decided to step down, effective immediately. My full statement: pic.twitter.com/4B7siuIqcL— Carlos Cordeiro (@CACSoccer) March 13, 2020
Not all that surprising. I don't think he's responsible for the gulf between the Federation and the USWNT, but with that insulting statement coming out from... whoever the hell typed it, someone was going to have to fall on the sword. I don't think anything good was going to happen otherwise.
I’m not sure Cordeiro did much of anything tbh. He might not be responsible for the gulf, but he didn’t try to close it either...
Talk about your late night news dump... Will this get much press given the current events in the country and the world?
Tough to say. My gut says sports fans will hear more about it because there are no games to cover. The rest of the media probably won't care.
No mention at all on Sportscenter tonight. FS1, CBS Sports, and NBCSN don't have sports hightlight/news shows. Doubt The Herd, First Take, Get Up, and Skip and Shannon will bring it up tomorrow, but we'll see. Haven't seen it mentioned on the bottomline of ESPN yet either.
The establishment guy is gone, someone with a bright mind and soccer background steps up, and the lunatic fringe stays on Twitter where they belong. I like it. Hopefully Cone will make needed changes without worrying about re-election. That way, the youth and amateur heads whose votes carry so much weight, yet matter so little in the grand scheme of things, would be on the sideline for the remainder of her term.
The number of major things happening in sectors of my life I hold dear, all on the same day, is phenomenal. This makes like eight major things today alone. There were times I thought the Fed had a coherent, defensible position vis-a-vis the USWNT claims, but all of those were swept away by the idiotic statements this week. He needed to go.
I need to be the one that asks this... Do you guys think this will matter? In the post virus world of ~2022 will soccer still exist?
It only leaves the question of why he was in that job in the first place. As Arena said just a week or so ago, you can say whatever you want about Sunil but the guy had a genuine, deep passion for the game and Cordeiro didnt really much give a shit about it. He was the wrong man at the wrong time and while hes probably done way more damage than can be fixed by taking the pipe, we all need to figure how this imbecile got the job and how we find someone better qualified.
Cindy Cone, simply by virtue of being a woman and a former USWNT player, is already 1000% more qualified. I don't know if it's possible for her to make the kind of sweeping changes the federation is in desperate need of, but at least she's starting from a better point of entry.
I agree completely. Particularly because USSF President is in theory an unpaid, largely ceremonial political position. Ive never been a fan of promoting people based on what is or isnt between their legs but the symbolism alone is worth something. And since in the end USSF is going to have to open up the vaults and hand over 50 or 60 million dollars to a small handful of women we might just as well go full cuck, admit that men are worthless and useless and give them the deed to soccer house.
Well, you can promise the men bigger bonuses for winning the World Cup and the Olympics because you know it ain't gonna happen. On the women's side, you would be paying out serious coin almost every year. Sounds to me like they're being punished for being the best in the world.
A large chunk of the US population lives on the east coast.....I had sportscenter on for nearly 3 hours last night, from 9:30-12:30, and there wasn't a mention of this. Given current events, this is the least important thing that happened this week. It is important, it's just down the pecking order at this time. If this had happened a week ago....it would have been all over the news. The letter, and legal filings didn't get nearly enough or as much attention as they should have either. I agree with this. Anytime a position is unpaid, the person holding it needs to at least have passion for it. Cordeiro did start to make some needed changes. NOT promoting Jay Berhalter to CEO. Restructuring the soccer operations. Hell, giving soccer operations structure rather than having the President preside over those day to day operations. These are baby steps in the right direction. Stewart, Markgraf and McBride are passionate about American Soccer, now they just need the time to implement the necessary changes on the ops side. As for the business and overall leadership of the Federation.......that needs a lot of work.... Soccer House has a lot of deep rooted issues. Sunil was passionate about Soccer in America. He helped to grow the USSF and the game in this country from largely an afterthought to what it is today. The job of president of the USSF outgrew him, which is a good thing. It might be time to make this position a paid one, given the time & scope that it requires today and going forward.
This isn't a Hollywood movie where the bug wipes out 90% of people. Yes, soccer will exist. Everything will, minus between 1-3% of those who are infected.
The rioting will be worse than the bug... And when we are in quarantine a month, 2, 3, 4, 10, 15 moths... eventually people will rise up. What about when elections are "delayed indefinitely" next year? I really just don't see how this virus doesn't end up a full on world reboot. Our world has ended. A new one will rise in 18 months - 2 years.
The latest projections say that the crisis will end in 18 months and only after 70% of the world's population has been infected. And this is only if the virus has minimal mutations. If it mutates like colds and influenza... it's over. The world would never recover. I haven't been sleeping for weeks once I realized this.