Report: FCD promote assistant to front-office role Sources indicate longtime assistant Marco Ferruzzi will be named general manager of #FCDallas: https://t.co/ai5jPlZ76x— Paul Tenorio (@PaulTenorio) January 8, 2019 To amend this: Ferruzzi is acting as GM right now and is set to take a front office role, but may not have the GM title. Still some movement occurring in FCD front office. https://t.co/EE1IWRPHD0— Paul Tenorio (@PaulTenorio) January 8, 2019
Record of every head coach in MLS history Below is a link to a sortable Excel spreadsheet with the record of every head coach to ever roam the touchline in MLS history. Toggle between the two sheets at the bottom to filter by an individual coach’s total record, or to see every single coaching spell in MLS history. VIEW HERE Here are the top 10 and the bottom 10 (from reddit): The Earthquakes replaced the fourth best (Leitch) with the fifth worst (Stahre)...
https://www.lagalaxy.com/post/2019/01/09/la-galaxy-announce-technical-staff-additions 📰 NEWS: GBS has named Gustavo Barros Schelotto, Ariel Pereyra and Dom Kinnear to his coaching staff. https://t.co/0cXPVRKaOV— LA Galaxy (@LAGalaxy) January 9, 2019 The @LAGalaxy just announced additions to their technical staff - I'm going to just cut to the chase here. I never knew Guillermo Barros Schelotto had a twin brother, a long-time assistant. And he's coming to the Galaxy. I'm excited - we've got a huge potential for hijinx here. pic.twitter.com/HvGdkdlNcD— Pablo Iglesias Maurer (@MLSist) January 9, 2019
FCD promote assistant coach to front-office role Rodriguez takes blame for Fire's poor 2018 on ETR FCD announce Gonzalez's coaching staff for 2019
That Nelson Rodriguez interview really is something... apparently he told Djordje Mihailovic to go play college soccer instead of signing with the Fire, their academy talent doesn't justify a lower division team, and players cost too much money these days so just don't sign any. Speaking of Rodriguez... Let's do this in bites: Indiana star Andrew Gutman is mulling an offer from Celtic while Chicago shops his homegrown rights around MLS. #cf97 not interested in signing Gutman, but signing other homegrowns: https://t.co/ai5jPlZ76x— Paul Tenorio (@PaulTenorio) January 8, 2019 Chicago Fire academy product Andrew Gutman, who was named the top player in college soccer on Friday night as the MAC Hermann Trophy winner, is weighing an offer from Scottish powerhouse Celtic, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the talks. Even if Gutman does not sign overseas, however, there is a good chance he will not end up as a homegrown player signing for Chicago. Sources say the Fire initially offered Gutman a minimum-value contract and that Chicago has been shopping the left back’s homegrown rights within the league. Sources indicate MLS has upped the offer to Gutman in order to try to keep him in the league, and there is interest from multiple teams within MLS. Gutman is mulling both offers, but sources indicate he is leaning toward going overseas with Celtic. The Fire have major needs at both fullback positions, but it seems that Gutman may not be in the plans for 2019 despite his potential value as a homegrown player whose salary would not count against the team’s budget. Multiple teams rate Gutman as one of the top prospects in the country coming out of college, however.
This is the kind of shit this asshole has been doing for 3 years. We have 4 defenders on our roster and what does he do make a low ball offer knowing no way in hell he'll except it. The reason he makes an offer is so when he signs with somebody else we get funny money.
Ives is now reporting it was a sizable offer I’m told Scottish giant Celtic has completed the signing of Indiana University standout and Hermann Award winner Andrew Gutman. That’s a big blow for the Chicago Fire, which had offered the left back a sizable homegrown player contract.— Ives Galarcep (@SoccerByIves) January 10, 2019
Well, how can you blame the kid? Glaaasga Celtic arra gree-ist fitba cloob inna werl, an yeh cannae dispuuute thet, Jemmeh!
In the first year of the award, I’m told #SportingKC coach and technical director Peter Vermes won the MLS Chief Soccer Officer of the Year. Other finalists were Garth Lagerwey, Dave Kasper and Denis Hamlett.— Paul Tenorio (@PaulTenorio) January 10, 2019
Wait! No Kreis in the prominent coaches no longer coaching in MLS list? I think Heath is safe for the full, or very nearly full season. He's going to get a full 3 years to show his plan works. That was the big complaint about Orlando is that he had a 3 year plan, yet they fired him before he could finish. I think Minnesota will give him the full time. I voted for Paunovic because it just seems so lackluster there in Chicago. Of course, maybe they don't care enough to fire him (the argument for why Colorado won't pull the trigger). Nobody seems uniquely at risk to me mostly because every coach is in a comfortable landing spot (at least for now) due to legacy, name, organizational ambivalence, etc. Probably the best name to put up is always whomever is in charge at Orlando. They'll fire someone after assuring they are on board with the plan. https://www.prosoccerusa.com/mls/orlando-city-sc/orlando-city-jason-kreis-mike-bianchi-2/
Cost more than caring is the reason in Colorado. If Hudson has another year like last year I expect Casey will be the interim coach of the team by Labor Day. Mastroeni's contract went through 2019, so they don't want to fire Hudson and have to pay Mastroeni, Hudson, and a new coach this year. But if we get close enough that an interim coach can take them the rest of the way with no notable salary change (assuming we still suck) I think they'll can Hudson and find somebody else in the offseason. They'll still have to pay Hudson for 2020 but I think they can manage that. And kind of decent improvement though and Smith will stick with Hudson into 2020 at least.
The youth movement in Colorado should make them more interesting as a neutral. If Hudson can get slightly better results than last year now that he has 2 decent strikers and Acosta for a full year, in addition to the young CAM from UCLA (Hundley?), Vines (LB) could be a starter now they traded El Homie away, and the other CM (name?) who started getting minutes at the end of last season looked decent. Obviously the defense and goalkeeping situation will make things difficult, but if they show any improvement over last season while playing more entertaining soccer with youngsters on the field I'd be surprised if Hudson got fired....especially because they will have a clean slate next year without Howard as an albatross. TLDR; Colorado should be more interesting this year! And Hudson would have to do pretty terribly across multiple metrics (entertainment, results, player dev) to get fired.
Yep, exactly. Hundley isn't signed yet, but we expect the announcement before camp opens. And the other Cm you're thinking of is Bassett. I wouldn't be shocked to see both Bassett and Vines in the opening day XI (barring injury).
Smile! 😃 // #SuperDraft by @adidassoccer 📷: Andy Mead pic.twitter.com/Fc3Y4SPUlX— Major League Soccer (@MLS) January 11, 2019
Garber just announced that the MLS Coach of the Year award will be named after Sigi Schmid. Edit: Honoring a legend of the game.Moving forward, we’ll be presenting the Sigi Schmid MLS Coach of the Year award as part of our year-end honors. pic.twitter.com/Y5moEZBJEO— Major League Soccer (@MLS) January 11, 2019
Bob Bradley dropped 15 minutes of fire in the draft mixed zone earlier, much of it about how poor we soccer media people are recognizing and explaining what happens on the field. I'm in awe. He's a legend.— Charles Boehm (@cboehm) January 11, 2019
Attn: Minnesota United, FC Cincinnati, etc. Former US international David Wagner leaves his position as manager of Huddersfield Town David Wagner has today departed his role as Head Coach of Huddersfield Town by mutual consent. The 47-year-old leaves Town after detailed discussions with the Board of Directors, with both parties agreeing this is the correct move for the future of the Club.
Atlanta United coach Frank de Boer announces coaching staff for 2019 season New Atlanta United head coach Frank de Boer announced his technical staff for the 2019 season on Monday, naming Orlando Trustfull, Bob de Klerk and Rob Valentino as his assistant coaches, while Aron Hyde will remain on staff as goalkeeper coach.
Here’s the problem, though. If you happen to correctly criticize him or any Bradley, they (Bob, his brother, or Michael) will email, DM, or text you privately to tell you why you’re wrong and they’re right and it’s exhausting. They wear you down and bully you to (re)gain control.— Jimmy Conrad (@JimmyConrad) January 12, 2019