1. Bradley to be interim coach after Klinsi deal collapses

German Juergen Klinsmann, who has for months been tipped to succeed Bruce Arena as U.S. men’s national team coach, won’t be taking the job.

In a statement, Klinsmann said he had withdrawn his name from consideration but would not go into details of his conversations with U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati.

Gulati has scheduled a media teleconference for Friday noon ET to discuss the search for the next head coach. He will reportedly announce that Chivas USA coach Bob Bradley, a former Arena assistant at the University of Virginia and D.C. United and with the U.S. Olympic team, will be named as interim head coach.

Klinsmann, who resides with his family in Southern California, had been considered the overwhelming favorite for the job, especially after he did not continue as Germany national team coach after the 2006 World Cup. Insiders have always cautioned that there was no guarantee Klinsmann would succeed Arena, with whom he spent time as an observer at the U.S. national team training center in Carson, Calif.