News: Bruce Arena says Carlos Cordeiro has 'no business being' USSF president

I think a lot of folks look at the DFB in Germany as a federation that gets a lot right.................

 

I'm thinking France may be the ideal at the moment. Incredible youth talent and just won the world cup. Will their women's side catch up and / or pass the US?

 

When it comes to youth development, I think Belgium's FA also does a great job. I listen to The Way of Champions podcast quite regularly, and one of Belgium's youth development directors was on the podcast about two years ago. It was a very interesting listen.

http://wayofchampions.libsyn.com/we...rector-of-coach-education-kris-van-der-haegen

I get that there are a lot of different variables with Belgium compared to the US, but the level of talent from that country relative to its population at least deserves a look to see what they are doing right.

 

That's a great question... and it's not one I've heard asked before.

 

The WNT may have some say in this.

 

Not sure what the WNT can say in terms of the domestic leagues. I have seen absolutely nothing from their representatives that suggests a reasonable idea as to how make independently viable a women's league.

 

Good. Whether their right or wrong. I agree or disagree with their opinion. WE NEED PEOPLE TO CALL OUT USSF FOR BEING SHlT!!!

 

What are the odds that a Jay Berhalter loyalist slipped in the offending language to take down Cordeiro?

 

pretty much zero. That language was deliberate (and stupidly tone-deaf).

 

What I don't understand is apparently the lawyers sent that out with no oversight? If that happened Cordeiro should have ripped them publicly for it and fired them on the spot. I don't understand why he would resign and take the blame if he had nothing to do with it.

 

im sure there was a legal team at the USSF who was interacting with the legal team. Cordero was non-executive chairman of the board and this should have been an executive decision.

 

You sound like you know a lot more about the mechanics of this. Mostly I was saying that if it were me I might resign but I'd sure have showed my wrath before that if I truly had nothing to do with epic fail.

 

If Cordeiro didnt know that wording was going out,that's a level of incompetence greater than even Sawker Haus has mustered up in the past.

 

President of USSF is a VOLUNTEER position.....

Herc Gomez is 100% spot on that this falls on the Board of Directors. They allowed this to happen, they rubber stamped it. Cordiero is simply the fall guy in all of this. Someone had to take the public blame, and he was the President, therefore he was the sacrificial lamb.

He did fire the law firm prior to resigning though, so there was at least some "wrath."

 

this should be an executive decision that is approved by the board.

once it got out and they immediately lost the PR battle, someone’s head was going to roll.

I don’t know if it was presented to the board but I know that several board members were “shocked” about it and covered their ass with public statements even though they share some of the blame with Cordero.

 

Maybe I'm not communicating correctly here but by saying I would be mad if someone did that and I didn't know I'm sort of saying because no one seemed that mad maybe they did know and are now blowing smoke. The two options are only the law firm knew and they went totally rogue or someone or several actually did know. I'm kind of thinking no law firm would go totally rogue because they know they would be terminated and even their reputation besmirched.

 

Perhaps, he didn't want the job anymore.

 

That I suppose is his point. The aim of that deliberation was the impression of Cordeiro the stupidity of the statement would create,

 

Hopefully all of them

 

Had there been a CEO in place, the CEO would have recommended either approving or rejecting the legal brief and brought this recommendation to the board.

US Soccer not having a functioning CEO was a big factor in this whole mess.