Gregg Berhalter’s ‘Off The Record’ Comments Show That His Time With The USMNT Is Done

This isn’t going to be a sensationalized Gregg Berhalter ‘hit piece’.

It is actually incredibly important to understand that certain aspects of the Gio Reyna x Gregg Berhalter discourse have been completely fabricated… so let’s view this story through the lens of what we know:

Gregg Berhalter spoke at a leadership conference that he, and US Soccer, believed would be off the record. Charter Works then published an article called ‘Leadership Tips From The US Men’s Soccer Head Coach’. In that article Gregg is quoted as saying,

On handling difficult decisions around performance:

Every day you come into the locker room and you’re checking the scales to see where guys are at, to see what issues can arise. You always have to be ready to hit issues head-on, using your values as a filter.

An example I can give you: In this last World Cup, we had a player that was clearly not meeting expectations on and off the field. One of 26 players, so it stood out. As a staff, we sat together for hours deliberating what we were going to do with this player. We were ready to book a plane ticket home, that’s how extreme it was. And what it came down to was, we’re going to have one more conversation with him, and part of the conversation was how we’re going to behave from here out. There aren’t going to be any more infractions.

But the other thing we said to him…