When (not if) Dick Advocaat is fired at Sunderland, maybe he would like a return to Chicago. I would like to see a return to MLS of Lubos Kubik, perhaps as an assistant. Teach the defense how to, well, defend. Take over as head coach in a couple of years. Wynalda would be all sorts of fun, and he has lobbied for it. I will renew my occasional call for the hiring of the "great" Ian Holloway to take over the Fire. He has significant experience as a player and a coach. He has experience with teams with low ambition. He is not coaching now. He is hysterical.
I love Wyno but the ultimate choice depends on who is really in charge of the team now. If it's MLS, we may actually be given a decent coach. If it's still Hauptman, it will be the cheapest, most sycophantic option he can find.
Foreign managers fail for significant reasons in MLS. Unlike most other leagues an MLS headman needs to be both manager and coach. Alot of players entering the league are not prepared for the rigors of the professional game ( Shipp) . Nearly every single Fire manager post Sarachan hasn't been up to the task ( Hamlett may be the exception). The Fire may need to go back to the classic MLS 1.0 recipe for success at this point to rebuild a basic development foundation. I was pushing for Ken Lolla midway through Klopas' tenure and was hoping he was on the short list when he departed. Hiring a solid college guy would go along way in rebuilding this teams core and setting it on the right path. My #1 choice is Louisville coach Ken Lolla.
BTW.. In all likelihood the fire have the #1 pick in the draft along with an additional HG player. Adding the young talent this team has that has gone undeveloped the need for a coach to mould young players into a cohesive unit is overwhelming.
Does Sigi Schmidt like deep dish and Italian beef? (Who am I kidding) Pry ( and it won't be easy) his fat ass from Seattle.
I would say a USL Pro side is a better fit for a coach and system like that. Platoon the players that aren't prepared for the rigors of the professional game and let a pro coach run the pro side.
He'd probably want too much control. (And by "too much control" I mean he would want to be manager of the Fire, Giordano's, Aurelio's, Pizzeria Uno, and another restaurant establishment to be named later.)
It would be easy, as he is close to being fired. If Seattle goes out in the first round of the playoffs, Sigi is gone.
I am going with Red Apple on Milwaukee as the restaurant to be named later. He would eat that place out of house and home. "All you can eat" means a whole different thing when it comes to Sigi Schmid.
The insecurities of Americans trying to use English terms when talking soccer is embarrassing. There's a much bigger German, Polish and Hispanic influence in Chicago soccer. Trying to rely on aglicized terms is silly poseuring. It's lame. Sorry. The EPL sucks, too.
FIrst of all why the FUkC are you so insecure to presume I am a fukcin' Euro snob? Who are you to tell me what words I can and cannot use in the English language? What do YOU know about my background? You embarrass yourself. If you want me to go into a long winded defense of my use of the words I choose to use I could do that but I hardly think it's worth the time.
Wait and see if either Sigi or Kreis are available at the end of the season...both very well could be and I'd be happy with either. Otherwise...I guess Petke... ...CJ?
I am not trying to defend a damn thing or a league. Interesting you are so anti Brit when you have one of the best known British actors as your avatar. Just sayin', careful of the stones you throw in glass houses etc etc...
My last name is "Burton" "for ********'s sake". I have nothing against the British. I believe the anglicization of soccer in this country is embarrassing and detrimental to its growth. Now, were we down at the pub sharing some pints I'd tell you "gaffer" is a stupid slang word to use here and that the EPL sucks, but then buy the next round.
Fair enough. I don't normally use the term however being that the man in question, Steve Nichol, is a Scot I used "Gaffer" because it is peculiarly UK slang. So, apparently my wit was lost and/or misinterpreted. I have argued before with other people about this topic that some of us have been around the soccer scene in this country when there was no American soccer on the television and coverage was a wasteland and we were forced to listen to British announcers and they used different terminology than used in an NFL broadcast. Some of those words are found and used in the FIFA Laws Of The Game and being a certified referee for many decades now I do not feel like I am being detrimental to the growth of the game by using the term "ball goes into touch" because that is both British and correct. So, while "gaffer" is not a proper term, neither is "Skipper" but having multiple names for the same thing is what makes English interesting to me; boss man, skipper, manager, coach, gaffer, head honcho, big cheese, top dog, head tactician, superintendent, director, handler, overseer, governor, CEO, captain, ruler, leader, overlord, top cat, maestro, steward...etc etc... EPL I watch because it is on television. I also enjoy watching EPL teams get beat up in the UEFA Champions League so I dunno what that means? I leave the last word to you should you wish to take it.
I believe the anglicization of drinking in this country is embarrassing and detrimental to its growth. But this is a positive development.