“Everything that happened to Berhalter was handled in a very juvenile way”

The American striker Christian Pulisic asked the American Soccer Federation to speed up the selection process, describing the dispute between the outgoing coach as “childish”, Gregg Berhalterand gio queen.

“Everything that happened around Gregg was handled in a highly childish way,” explained the star of the US team (24) on the sports channel ESPN. “The parents complained that Reyna was playing a bit too much. I don’t want to get too involved, but I think Gregg is very lucky to have found himself in his current situation.”

The United States team, which was eliminated in the round of 16 of the last World Cup, last fall in Qatar, has been without a coach since Berhalter’s contract expired on Dec. 31.

His renewal by US Soccer, the American federation, seemed like a formality, but he was accused in December of beating the woman he had been married to for more than thirty years. The case became sensational when Reyna’s parents revealed that they were behind the accusations brought to the attention of the federation.

Claudio Reyna, a professional soccer player in the years 1990-2000 and former teammate of Berhalter, and his wife Danielle explained that they alerted the federation to these events that occurred in 1991 because the behavior of the coach of the United States National Team to their son. in the World Cup in Qatar.

Although Berhalter admitted the facts and an independent investigation concluded that there was no legal bar to his re-election, the president of the US Federation, Cindy Parlow Cone, indicated that US Soccer did not plan to appoint a future coach before the “end of the summer”.

Pulisic believes that everything should be fixed first. “Should we wait? I don’t think there is any need because we are in a different situation than when we failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, when everything had to be rebuilt. Now we are a compact and solid group that no need to start from scratch.”