Bradley returns to MLS to coach Los Angeles FC
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[July 28, 2017]
(Reuters) - Former United States
coach Bob Bradley has been named the inaugural manager of the Los
Angeles Football Club, the Major League Soccer expansion team that
will start playing next year.
For Bradley, who was at the helm of the U.S. team that advanced to
the knockout stage of the 2010 World Cup, it marks a return to MLS
after previously coaching Chicago Fire, MetroStars and Chivas USA.
During his first stint in MLS, Bradley won a league title and two
U.S. Open Cups with Chicago and left Chivas in 2006 to take over the
U.S. team.
Long a polarising figure, Bradley was dismissed from his U.S. role
in 2011 and was criticised by many for being too conservative and
for coaching a team that too often had to catch up using fitness
rather than tactical awareness.
Bradley has since had stints coaching Egypt and club teams in Norway
and France.
Last year, he became the first American to manage an English Premier
League team after being hired by Swansea City.
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Swansea City manager Bob Bradley Action Images via Reuters / Peter
Cziborra
He was fired by the Welsh club last December, less than three months
after taking charge.
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Ian Ransom)
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