Bob Bradley Out as US Men's Team Coach

What I think most of us on this blog were waiting for finally happened today. Bob Bradley is out and the search is on for the next US men's soccer coach. There are lots of options for the US. I don't care what anyone says, the US has the money to buy anyone it wants. My fear is that the USSF tries to stay with an American, and looks to the MLS. I know the MLS doesn't get much love, but it is a solid player development league. I just don't want any of the coaches. First, few have any real international coaching experience, and second, its like looking to the minor leagues to get a coach for the most difficult and challenging major league. ESPN has a good article about some likely choices here, so I'm not going to go through all of them. Instead, I'm going to focus on my two favorites below the fold.

First, Jugen Klinsmann is the favorite of all the non-MLS coaches. He had a solid run with Germany in the 2006 World Cup, and the US has almost hired him a couple of times. I like what he did for Germany in 2006, but I have been more impressed about what he did to Germany's youth development system while he was there. He has received lots of credit for Germany's recent results in Euro 2008 and the 2010 WC. The US has a serious deficit of young talent, or at least that is how it appears. It could just be that Bradley wasn't willing to bring in new blood, but from the looks of things I would say that we have few super stars in the making to replace our aging veterans. Klinsmann has proven in Germany that he can reorganize a developement system to help build better players.

Second is Guus Hiddink. Hiddink is Dutch, and the Dutch are some of the best at teaching and coaching soccer in the world. If I had a choice of anyone it would be him. In the last dozen or so years he has brought two international teams to heights previously unknown. In the 2002 WC, he took South Korea to the knock out stage, a huge win for a team that had never won a game in the WC. In 2006, he led Australia to the first WC in over 30 years. They lost in the knock-out stage to eventual world champ Italy on a controversial PK. He then took over for Russia and led them to a strong showing at Euro 2008. Most think we can't afford him, but I'm calling bullshit. We are the USA; we can buy anyone.

Those are my thoughts on my top two. Check the ESPN article on some others. What are your thoughts?