With Red Bull New York head coach/technical director Bruce Arena overseeing his first meaningful game tonight (more later), the commentariat turned out some perspective pieces. Check out the line up:
Andrea Canales (LINK)
Grant Wahl (LINK)
Steve Goff (LINK)
Each takes a subtly different approach: Canales finds out what the league's other leading lights think; Wahl's is a weird-to-useless piece of water-carrying; Goff, for his part, seems perplexed that Arena got back into coaching. All have their place -even Wahl's - and here's one more take: If The Bruce manages to take Red Bull to the semifinals of the playoffs, the man's legend grows. Otherwise, there's always next year.
One last point: Arena's schtick has started to wear to the point that, yeah, I'd kind of like to see him fail. Not completely, mind you, but the man's ego could definitely use some deflation; check out Wahl's piece by way of reference. If any coaching post can trip up a career, it's got to be Red Bull.
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