US Soccer has hired Matt Crocker as their new Sporting Director, as one of his first tasks he must find the new USMNT head coach that has been vacant ever since Gregg Berhalter’s contract expired back in 2022.

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22 Comments

  1. Why do people want marsh , he’s not proven he keeps failing , I hope he turns it around but right now. He sucks

  2. My guess he worked with youth teams when there was a lot of coaching exchange programs in the us in the 80’s and 90’s

  3. When I was growing up in early 2000s my town had coaches from the UK to help with youth teams come over and stay host families. I had one coach live at my house for a year. I wonder if he was part of a similar program.

  4. Matt Crocker has the knowledge to perform well as the sporting director for US Soccer. Oguchialu Onyewu should also be hired as the General Manager. However, the MOST important decision for the USMNT to be successful at the 2026 FIFA World Cup is to NOT hire Jesse Marsch (or anyone connected to Energy Drink Football.) US soccer needs to hire someone with EXTENSIVE experience UEFA Champions League, not just the domestic league. They need to have THRIVED in that tournament. Performing well as HOST of the tournament is important to the future of the game in the nation. The problem is that I highly DOUBT that they will take this GLOBAL tournament SERIOUSLY, and probably will not invest in that CALIBER of coach. They probably do not have the financial ability to do so as well.

  5. You want to hire a national team coach? Here's how you do it. You don't do it by resume. You don't do it by how they THINK about managing give our player pool.. Here's how you do it.
    1. You pinpoint a group of coaches you might be interested in. You send them the tape of, say, all 4 world cup games and some key qualifiers. Ask them to write a brief 4-5 page analysis of what they thought was good, and what they thought that could have been improved, given the player pool available, the tactical opportunities, and the opponents. They could do a video instead, or in addition. The genre doesn't matter. You pay them for those insights as though they were consultants, and not candidates. Real money. 5 figures each. Top top coaches would sneer at it, but next level guys? They might think, "hmmm….I get paid to do this, I can farm the stuff out and I may get a shot.
    2. From that group, you get three or four candidates. You send them everything you can about the current pool and the youth teams. You, US Soccer, give them a dossier on each, including links to videos of their performances. You ask them to study that and present their views on the current pool, and the future pool, and how they think the might manage the pool going forward. Again, you pay every candidate to do this. This is both a job interview AND a consulting job.
    US Soccer should allocate $2-3 million for fees and expenses to this coaching group to do this. Those who do not get the job understand that their insights will be made available to the guy who DOES get the job.
    US Soccer should NOT go for some top name coach unless he is willing to do this. Give this job to a guy who understands OUR pool, and OUR strengths and weaknesses, and designs an approach to OUR pool, not a preconceived notion about what the "system" should be, like GGG.
    Given the fact that we don't have to qualify there is NO RUSH. Get the right person who understands our pool.

  6. Look I didn't like Berhalter either, but we won several regional titles, didn't lose a game in group play at the WC. I feel some respect has been earned. You don't like the guy I get it, but don't disrespect him simply say I feel we could do better with a different guy.

  7. Nothing against Crocker, but this is the hire we needed at the beginning of the last WC cycle. For this cycle, we needed someone who could put the US in a position to make a statement in the knock out stage and put in a groundwork to win one in the not too distant future.

  8. The USSF should stop ANY country from opening foreign training facilities in any US state/territory. Why facilitate or make it easier to other countries to win over dual nats?
    For example, I'm okay if a US-MX dual nat picks mexico over the US, but let the player travel to mexico to train and play with mexico, let's not make it simple for the player by allowing mexico or other countries schedule friendlies in the US. Yes, there is money to be made by allowing say mexico play friendlies in the US.
    Nothing wrong with making money, but what is best for US soccer, making money or growing/retaining talented dual nats?

  9. "forward thinking" means playing a relatively open 4-4-3 formation and trying to push forward and try to score, unlike the olde USMNTs of Bora Milutinovic, which bunkered down, did a low block, and aimed to score on set pieces. The problem with this forward thinking is lack of any defense and blowout scores like that against the Netherlands at the World Cup.

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