Anthony Hudson, who was an assistant under Gregg Berhalter, will take over the USMNT temporarily this month as Berhalter's future remains unclear following the recent drama.
The U.S. men’s national soccer team has been mired in drama for much of the past month, culminating Wednesday with a shocking admission of domestic violence from coach Gregg Berhalter—forced by what he claims was a potentially career-ending blackmail incident by a longtime family friend just as his contract as manager of the team expired.
During his tenure Berhalter had his fair share of headline-grabbing incidents—like pushing to host a winter World Cup qualifying match in St. Paul, Minnesota, where the opposing team's goalkeeper—but things reached a fever pitch last month following the team’s middling performance in Qatar. Reyna, 20, responded in a statement saying he was “extremely surprised that anyone on the U.S. men’s team staff would contribute” to coverage of the ordeal, and that Berhalter “has always said that issues that arise with the team will stay ‘in house.’”
Then, the relative lull exploded this Tuesday when Berhalter released a lengthy statement out of nowhere to say he was being blackmailed by someone who wanted him fired. Then, on Wednesday, it emerged that the alleged blackmailers were actually Reyna's parents, former American soccer star Claudio and his wife Danielle.Danielle did admit, however, that it was she who alerted U.S. Soccer to Berhalter's past assault. She said she made the call because she was upset with her son being admonished by a coach who didn't have a perfect past of his own.
Danielle and Rosalind were roommates at the University of North Carolina at the time of Berhalter's alleged attack. Her husband, Claudio, is a former U.S. national team captain who was Berhalter’s teammate for their high school team and on two World Cup squads. Reyna was even Berhalter’s best man at his wedding.
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