Former Toronto FC head coach Bob Bradley is headed back to Norway
Bob Bradley has a new job.
Two and a half months after being fired by Toronto FC, Bradley has been named manager of Norwegian club Stabaek.
The American previously managed Stabaek from 2014 to 2015 and will now return to the club with a contract running through the end of the 2023 season.
Stabaek is currently in the relegation zone in the Norwegian Eliteserien, sitting in 15th place out of 16 teams. Bradley has 11 games to get them out and keep them up.
After being hired in November 2021 to rebuild the team, Bradley left TFC at the end of June with a 14-26-19 record and the third-longest head coaching tenure in the club’s history.
Bradley was head coach of the USMNT from 2006 to 2011, leading the team to a successful finish at the 2010 World Cup before being eliminated in the knockout round. Bradley has been named MLS Coach of the Year three times and is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
After leaving the USMNT, Bradley went on to coach the Egyptian national team and had stints with Stabaek, French side Le Havre AC, and Swansea City in the English Premier League.
He returned to MLS as the inaugural manager of LAFC in 2017, leading the club to immediate success and winning the Supporters’ Shield in 2019 and a CONCACAF Champions League final before leaving the club in 2021 to join Toronto FC.
Here’s my comment. Who cares. Good riddance you phony.
I’m sincerely happy he found a place of comfort and in no way surprised it’s bottoms of the Norwegian league. As a young coach it would be awesome to get a chance to live and work in Norway. As an older, retiring coach same.
He first went there after coaching the US at the World Cup, that’s a bit of a step backwards. So after failing, in a big way, in Toronto it’s a lateral move. But only because he helped drag TFC down to that level.
This guy has no shame ! retire already, and tell your son to do the same
Naw he has to make sure stabaek get relegated then his job is complete.
Should be interesting to see how stubborn Bob is over there. Will he force a 4-3-3/3-4-3? More than likely yes. Will he be pragmatic will only 11 games left? We shall see.
If he actually changes things up then it shows that while he was here, he was taking MLS’ no relegation for granted by forcing things that did not work.
The right place for the coaching “talent” of this guy!
A bottom team in a a national competition where except about 4-5 decent teans, all others are very weak, maybe USL level average at best.
Coaches are hired to be fired. He has had both success and failure in his career, like most coaches who have been around as long as him.
Why should he retire if someone is willing to pay him and he still has the desire.
The proclaimed “greatest soccer mind in America” looks like he might be in Norway’s second division at the end of the season. Bob will not even be the best coach in that league btw, Bodo Glimt’s coach is miles ahead of him. I would have absolutely taken that guy as coach for TFC.
Add molde to that amongst others ps nelson has scored a couple goals but also been benched a cpl times for marking air