Ruud Gullit is Officially The New Galaxy Coach
The Dutchman will be formally introduced at a 10:30 a.m. Friday press conference at Home Depot Center.
Also in attendance: Tim Leiweke, president & CEO, of Anschutz Entertainment Group; Galaxy GM Alexi Lalas; David Beckham's agent Simon Fuller, of 19 Entertainment, which reportedly orchestrated the deal; and Galaxy players, including Beckham.
More here.
Too bad Gullit isn't a few years younger, then he'd be even sexier:
And let's hope he does better than these guys.
Columnist Nick Green has written 100 Percent Soccer
since 2005. A
native of England, he began writing about soccer in
the mid-1980s and in 2000 permanently exchanged a seat
in the stands for one in
the press box. He lives six miles from Carson's Home
Depot Center, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas
USA and the training headquarters for U.S. Soccer.
Married to a long-suffering soccer widow, he has a cat
named Pele.