MOUTH GETS COACH IN TROUBLE -- AGAIN
“The World’s Greatest Soccer Coach,” Bruce Arena no longer is in charge of Major League Soccer’s New England Revolution. His resignation was announced Tuesday although apparently he told owner Robert Kraft of his decision last Saturday (Sept. 9). Why Arena, former University of Virginia coach who won five NCAA championships before leaving in 1996 to join the new MLS with D.C. United, walked away – or, for that matter, was put on administrative leave in August and never returned – remains shrouded in mystery. While all sorts of possible reasons were suggested by the game’s intelligentsia, no one, including Arena, has said outright what really happened. There was one “report” that he had used a racial slur heard by a party (or parties) unknown. The person who made the comment walked it back the next day and subsequently was fired. All team members quizzed for the record by Boston media said they never heard Arena s...