Bob Bradley: It's only kinda what you think

The USSF announced today Bob Bradley as the men's senior team interim coach and the head coach of the US U-23 team.

This certainly means Bradley will no longer be coaching Chivas USA (have fun in LA with a Guevara that only Bradley had a chance of controlling). There was some speculation that he would pull double duty as head coach of the Goats and interim head coach of the Nats then return to Chivas USA full time once a permanent US head coach was named. That's all done now with the U-23 gig which has no interim label.

We might also be able to guess with a fair amount of certainty that Bob Bradley is indeed the stopgap we figured he was between Klinsmann backing out and another full time coach being named. Bradley gives us someone with intimate experience of the US and MLS systems and can be counted on to compile a good camp roster and guide the Nats through their upcoming friendlies without any concern until a full time man is found.

Who's the Fed going to look to now to fill that head coaches spot? José Peckerman was always speculated about as being high on the list. As far as we knew, the sticking point with him was his limited English. That may not be as large of an issue now as it once was.

I think that whoever they pick, they won't come from MLS. Bob Bradley is probably the best of the MLS lot and if they're going to pass over him then they're going outside the family. Sunil Gulati may be dead set on finding someone with fresh ideas and fresh perspectives on the player pool. He thought he had him with Klinsi. Obviously he was wrong. The trick is finding the second best person that fits his idea of a head coach without wanting as much control as Jürgen wanted.