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Arena Continues USSF Search Rant
(Soccer365.com) - Former ‘Nats boss Bruce Arena simply cannot believe how long it is taking U.S. Soccer to name a permanent successor, and says the federation is damaging the progress made over his reign.
The New York coach believes USSF is leaving Bob Bradley twisting as caretaker manager for too long.
"I don't even think the issue is who should be the next coach, the issue is there should be a coach," Arena told the Star Ledger. "If I was hiring the president of IBM, he would be hired already."
"It doesn't take that much time to hire a national team coach."
"The program has not moved forward as much as it should because of that, so that's what I'm critical of," explained Arena. "I invested eight years into that thing and, despite the results of the last World Cup, we had a steady climb and it has to keep going that way."
"In the history of the world, I don't think it's taken that long to hire a national team coach."
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U.S soccer has been better off now that Arena has left. Him leaving is the biggest improvement we've had
Posted by: Anonymous | March 5, 2007 03:52 PM