How Bruce Arena Rebuilt The Revolution, And His Reputation
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🗓️ 17 November 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Four years ago, Bruce Arena's reputation as a miracle-working soccer coach took a bit of a hit when the U.S. Men's National Team failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. A year and a half later, he took the reins of the New England Revolution -- a team with a long history of success that had fallen on hard times. And now, Arena has just finished guiding the Revolution to the most successful regular season in MLS history. The Athletic's Jeff Rueter joins us to explain how Arena rebuilt the Revolution in just two years, what exactly has made the Revs so good, and why this latest coaching achievement might be Arena's most impressive yet.
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| 0:46.0 | Just two and a half years ago, the New England Revolution where there's no other way to put this really bad. |
| 1:01.0 | There's the final whistle, the Chicago Fire Finish Off, New England, in style tonight, five nil the final. |
| 1:09.0 | And at arguably their lowest moment as a club, they put a huge bet on a guy who some people had begun to question. |
| 1:15.0 | US Soccer Legends, Himalayan Legends, Bruce Arena has been named Foreign Director and Head Coach of the New England Revolution. |
| 1:25.0 | Today, the Athletics Jeff Rooter on how Bruce Arena, who had lost the faith of some US Soccer fans, has now transformed the revolution |
| 1:33.0 | and led them to the best regular season in MLS history. |
| 1:37.0 | From Wondering the Athletic, I'm Anders Keltow. |
| 1:40.0 | It's Wednesday November 17th, and this is the lead. |
| 1:47.0 | Jeff Rooter, welcome to the show. |
| 1:49.0 | Thanks for having me, Anders. |
| 1:50.0 | So Jeff, I want to start the story not with the New England Revolution, but on a rain soaked soccer field in Trinidad and Tobago back in October 2017. |
| 1:58.0 | Can someone step up and really take this game by the hands and make something happen that are not seeing the energy for the US? |
| 2:05.0 | The US men's national team at that time had brought in coaching legend Bruce Arena to try and write the ship during its World Cup qualifying campaign, but the US failed to qualify. |
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