After a meeting held at The Home Depot Center in Carson, CA featuring US Soccer president Sunil Gulati, CEO Dan Flynn and US Men's National Team head coach Bob Bradley Thursday, Gulati announced Bradley has been fired.
The meeting comes over a month after the US lost to Mexico 4-2 in the championship game of the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA and a day after the US team fell to 30th in the latest FIFA/Coca-Cola World Men's Soccer Rankings.
Bradley, who came to US Soccer as head coach in January 2007 after stints in Major League Soccer with the Chicago Fire and New York Red Bulls, to replace Bruce Arena, now head coach at MLS' Los Angeles Galaxy.
During his five-year tenure with the USMNT, he had a 43-25-12 record, including a 4-4-2 record so far this year.
Bradley led the team to the title at the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup and a second-place finish in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, the farthest the US had ever advanced at a FIFA-sanctioned event, as well as win their qualifying group and reaching the Round of 16 at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
Gulati said US Soccer will speak further about the Bradley firing Friday.
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