Gregg Berhalter Rehired as U.S. Men’s Coach

The United States males’s soccer staff introduced Friday that it was rehiring Gregg Berhalter as its head coach for the run-up to the 2026 World Cup.

The transfer capped a number of whirlwind months for Berhalter, 49, who led the American males’s staff to the spherical of 16 on the World Cup in Qatar however didn’t have his contract renewed within the aftermath of the event.

Instead, the U.S. Soccer Federation introduced that it had began an unbiased investigation into his conduct after accusations made by the mother and father of certainly one of his gamers that Berhalter had bodily abused his spouse, Rosalind, in an incident three many years in the past, once they had been relationship as faculty college students. The Berhalters, who stay married, reconciled shortly after the incident and have talked brazenly about it after the accusations this yr.

The investigation was sparked by data from the mother and father of the United States ahead Gio Reyna, who went to U.S. Soccer with particulars of the incident. Gio Reyna’s mom, Danielle, had been a teammate of Rosalind Berhalter’s at North Carolina on the time, and his father, Claudio, had performed with Gregg Berhalter on the nationwide staff.

Although the households had been shut associates for years, the Reynas went to U.S. Soccer solely after they turned upset about their son’s taking part in time throughout the World Cup. The Reynas later confirmed that that they had gone to the federation with details about the decades-old incident between Berhalter and his spouse.

They had change into upset after listening to Berhalter’s public feedback about an unnamed participant on the World Cup who “was clearly not meeting expectations on and off the field” and who the employees thought of sending house. Gio Reyna later revealed in an Instagram apology that he was the participant in query.

The investigation, which concluded in March, cleared Berhalter of any wrongdoing — that means he didn’t improperly withhold data from the group — and opened a path for him to be rehired. It was unclear at the moment, although, if that will occur.

In current days, key gamers on the boys’s staff, together with the star ahead Christian Pulisic, had prompt that they supported Berhalter’s return.

“I think he’s done a great job,” Pulisic instructed reporters of Berhalter after a 3-0 victory over Mexico on Thursday night time. “I’m glad we can just pick up where we left off,” he added, in feedback that prompt the staff had prior information of Friday’s announcement that Berhalter had been rehired.

Berhalter, who was first employed by the nationwide staff in 2019, returns to the staff with a 37-11-12 file as head coach.