Oscar Tabárez could also go on this list from the recent past, even though he's at this World Cup.

And anyone out there (Henry aside, he already knows) is welcome to look up how much "major international experience" Lionel Scaloni had before getting the Argentin a job.
A coach who can build chemistry on short notice, have a good tactical sense, and think fast on their feet when needed is probably going to be good at the job.

Doesn't mean I think Berhalter should get a second term. (I don't).

But nor is it good to insist on too much principle.
I pondered this recently with @soccercanales and @gpelvin.

The #USMNT doesn't need someone to impose a whole new way of doing things just because he's got a big name.

It needs someone to take the good already done and improve on it.

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I'd like to see Jesse Marsch get the job. No shock there. How to get him into the job is the big question.

@gpelvin pitches Carlo Ancelotti. I'm willing to listen because Ancelotti's No. 1 trait is taking a group of good players and making them better.

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As I noted on here after the latest @bestiessoccer show, some fans were pitching Luis Enrique before Morocco-Spain. Perhaps some of them have re-thought that since then.

And I can do without Gareth Southgate and the accompanying snobby lectures we will get from the English.
(I think Gareth Southgate is a very good manager, but if you think the sport in this country won't get mocked endlessly for hiring a famous Englishman to run its men's national team for a World Cup on home soil... it will.)

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Absolute, utter shock. This news will hurt me and a lot of other people for a long time to come.
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And the rest of you know now why I have been just fine not being in that country.

I am at best a quarter of the journalist and person he was, and I did not want to set foot in that country out of fear out of being tracked and harrassed and who knows what else.
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(And if you've followed me on this free bird app for any amount of time, you know who Marta is, so.)
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Sacrilegious, I know.

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A candid conversation with former Philadelphia Independence player @JoannaLohman, who played for Paul Riley here and with Sinead Farrelly at two clubs.

On what Lohman saw then but didn’t know how to recognize, and what she sees now:

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