Six months into the search for a new national team coach, the only progress we've made is that Jurgen Klinsmann has officially withdrawn his name from consideration. Kalifornia Klinsy was our great weiss hope after he coached Germany to third place in the World Cup, since we could offer him a job that would allow him to keep his family based in California. The other big name alternative, Argentina's Jose Pekerman, also looks like a long shot, since nothing has materialized and he also doesn't speak English.
The interim coach is Bob Bradley, who coached the Fire to a double in their first season back in '98. He has also been made the under-23 team coach, which seems a little more his forte. We still need somebody who can instill some sort of tactical sense, and hopefully somebody with some media credibility for the four year project of building a team to take to South Africa, and the Copa America in Venezuela next year. We can't blow it in the Copa America next year, we just can't. Not with Hugo Chavez as our host.
In other news, Gibraltar has been admitted as a UEFA member. Spain had threatened to withdraw, taking all their clubs out of European competition if Gibraltar were allowed in, so this should be fun. The chances of a Gibraltar club being drawn against a Spanish club are incredibly slim, since the Spanish clubs get a bye to later rounds, but the hissyfit expected from the Spanish government would have been some quality entertainment.
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