“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 [delay], so that’s what I’m critical of. 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, and it doesn’t move forward the way it can when there’s so much in doubt. … In the history of the world, I don’t think it’s taken that long to hire a national team coach.”
— Bruce Arena, who was fired as U.S. head coach last July. Bob Bradley was named interim head coach in December. Bradley has since guided the USA to a 3-1 win over Denmark and a 2-0 win over Mexico in his first two games. (Newark Star-Ledger)