According to this Milwaukee report, the Fire picked former DC United Assistant, Current USMNT Assistant, Virginia resident and former DC United coaching target Dave Sarachan. http://www.jsonline.com/sports/socc/nov02/92561.asp The main discussion is here: https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=22095 -Tron
If this is true, Sarachan will be the third DC United assistant to become an MLS head-coach. Congratulations to Mr. Sarachan who is deserving of such a position. Good luck Mr. Sarachan, except when you play DC United!
Too bad they didn't get Rongen or maybe we could've gotten Beasley as compensation... That would be a scary good midfield though, with Convey, Beasley and Olsen. Until they all left for Europe the next year that is.
This stinks. We should have had Sarachan. Maybe then we wouldn't be placing all of our off-season eggs in the "formerly good European senior citizens" basket.
Good luck to Dave. He is now the ENEMY and will be booed the moment he steps out of the visitor's tunnel.
Man, why is it all the good DC United assistant coaches become head coaches somewhere else? What's the over/under on how long it takes Sarachan to join Bob Bradley and Frank Yallop as ex-DCU assistants who have won MLS Cup elsewhere?
I truely believe this is a very good news for the DCU.The Fire new coach has no meaningfull experience as a player and nothing " to write home about "as a coach.In other words, Fire got an unexperienced coach. Taking into account their loose team,right now; I predict they are looking to a 50/50 chance to be out of the playoffs next season. Their front office blew it ,they had a great oportunity to get a great foreign coach. Instead they have chosen the easy way out, a american coach with no experience as a head coach. It is very hard for me to understand their logic.I cannot believe that a GM will expose his team to the mistakes that all new coaches are making in the begining !! It does not make any sense to me !!!
Tell us what you know. OZ, Peter Reid, ??? Yallop made tons of mistakes his first year, as did Bradley.
actually i think this is overall a positive development. good american coaches will lead to more good american and more good american players. true, as sorum points out, there is the possiblity the he will not work out as a head coach, it is often the case that some assistants don't. it is also the case that a foreign coach in mls would have an adjustment period--he'd need to learn the mls structure, get to know american players, etc. i don't think sorum is a troll by the way, an extremist perhaps (with some obession with convey) but not a troll. i have seen him in front of a big group of BS people and ray hudson and him ask all these questions and identify himself as sorum.