2023-06-16 11:56:14
Well-known players want Gregg Berhalter back as US coach. It is now reported that there will be a comeback as a coach. This is not without explosiveness.
According to media reports, Gregg Berhalter is about to return as coach of the upcoming World Cup co-host USA.
The 59-year-old former Bundesliga professional coached the American national soccer team until the end of last year and led them to the top 16 teams at the World Cup in Qatar. But then his contract expired. The personnel is considered sensitive because of an internal dispute.
After Berhalter’s departure, Anthony Hudson acted as caretaker coach before BJ Callaghan was recently appointed coach. The 41-year-old celebrated his first game, beating Mexico 3-0 in the semi-finals of the CONCACAF Nations League. As the portal “The Athletic” and the broadcaster ESPN now reported, Berhalter should return.
Players vote for Berhalter
Players from the US team, including former BVB star Christian Pulisic, have already called for a comeback for Berhalter, who has won 37 games and drawn 12 in 60 games as US coach. Eleven games under his leadership were lost.
The personnel at the co-host of the 2026 World Cup is explosive. Berhalter’s farewell was accompanied by a rather bizarre argument between him and the parents of Borussia Dortmund international Giovanni Reyna.
Among other things, they accused Berhalter of playing down an incident in the early 1990s in which he kicked his wife Rosalind in the legs after an argument. Berhalter had admitted this and stressed that he regretted the incident. Meanwhile, Giovanni Reyna’s mother, Danielle Reyna, said Berhalter’s statements would “significantly minimize” the abuse that took place on the night in question.
Disagreements became public shortly after the end of the World Cup. Berhalter had made it public that a player was about to be suspended because of demonstrative listlessness. The media quickly found out that it was Giovanni Reyna.
According to Berhalter, an unnamed person is said to have tried to contact a person in the association during the World Cup in order to discredit the coach with certain information. It is said to have been Danielle and Claudio Reyna, former US international and even best man at Berhalter’s wedding. (dpa)
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