Berhalter fired, could Guardiola or Klopp be potential replacements as USMNT's coach?
Christian Polanco from The Cooligans Podcast reacts to US Soccer firing Gregg Berhalter and discusses the possibility of Pep Guardiola or Jürgen Klopp coming in as the next coach for the USMNT.
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Hi, this is Christian Polanco of the Kans here on Yahoo Sports, Greg Berhalter, head coach for the US men's national team has been fired.
It's been reported by Doug mcintyre of Fox Soccer.
The US men's national team head coach was in hot water after the US men's national team got grouped.
They got knocked out of the group stage in Copa America, a very disappointing performance.
So it is not too much of a shock that this is the result the outcry from fans, it was also quite loud with plenty of people online calling for Greg Behal.
There's job, even the American outlaws, the US soccer supporters group made a statement saying that the head coach should be replaced.
So next for us, soccer is finding a new coach.
There are a lot of potential options.
There are names that uh I don't even know if there are even possibilities, but you know, we know that Pep Guardiola, this is his last season at Manchester City.
Is that a possibility that we can have a manager of that caliber as the US MNT head coach that would be wild Jurgen Klopp is also a name that has come up, especially because he left Liverpool.
We all heard that he was gonna take a year off.
Uh, maybe that vacation might be cut a little short because, uh, if us soccer can make an offer that he might be interested in, this could change, uh, how not only, uh, how soccer is viewed in this country but how us soccer is viewed around the world.
So that is, that could be the potential future.
There's gonna be a lot of pressure here because the World Cup is less than two years away.
It's gonna be on home soil here in the US Canada and Mexico, given that we're gonna be hosting the World Cup.
Uh We have to be good hosts and we have to look good, right.
We have to clean the place up and this is part of uh that whole process.