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Bob Bradley will remain the coach of the U.S. national team through the 2014 World Cup, the U.S. Soccer Federation announced late Monday afternoon. In recent days, there were indications that momentum was building against the 52-year-old New Jersey native. Instead, Bradley will guide the national team and continue to shape American soccer at its highest level for four more years.
U.S. Soccer provided no additional details or quotes from either Bradley or president Sunil Gulati, who met late last week in Los Angeles. Reports then surfaced that Gulati had resumed his pursuit of former German national team coach Jürgen Klinsmann, who had rebuffed him in 2006. There was never any confirmation of that rumor, and no other names surfaced as potential candidates. Meanwhile, Bradley expressed interest in a possible move to England, but nothing materialized.
The decision likely seems rest on the fact that each represented the best option for the other. U.S. Soccer was not going to be able to entice or afford a coach with a better resume that Bradley, and Bradley was never going to be considered a viable candidate for a high-profile job in Europe. It was either the national team or a vacation, followed by a return to Major League Soccer. That isn’t a very difficult choice.
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