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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 4481535, member: 405"]
I think the next step for the US National Team is to hire a South American coach.

MLS has become a great intermediate stepping stone for young players from Argentina, Brazil and Columbia who are maybe not ready for the Big 5 leagues in Europe. Players are more likely to get playing time to develop their quality, and put themselves in the shop window for European clubs. The league is financially stable and they can make a nice living for a young player in the US.

There are a handful of South American managers in MLS right now, and there have been others in the last 5-10 years who have maybe gone on to bigger things, like Tata Martinez (Argentina, Barcelona, Mexico).  I think he's kind of stale and used up, but if we could find a younger version of him, I think it would really improve our tactics as a team.

Gonzalo Pineda is a young 40 year old coach for Atlanta United.  In a season and a half, his team has performed like a mid-table team, at a little less than a point-and-a-half a game.  He was a good player for Mexico and won some trophies as a defensive midfielder in MLS.  Changed to US Citizenship. I see a couple guys from Spain coaching in MLS, too (the Dallas Coach, Nico Estavez, only 42).

Do you guys who follow MLS closer than me have an ideas about up-and-comers that we should be thinking about, as a more offensively sophisticated alternative to Berhalter and MLS American-raised coaches?

Hernan Losada at DC United, Oscar Pareja at Orlando City, Matias Almeyda, San Jose Earthquakes, Giovanni Savarese of Portland.  Could any of these guys be the next USMNT Coach?  Would any of them be improvements over Berhalter?
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