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Fox Soccer's Alexi Lalas has doubled down on his demands to see US World Cup manager Gregg Berhalter remain as the team's coach, despite the now well-known 'kicking' incident between he and his wife that was recently revealed.
Berhalter is currently being investigated by US Soccer after publicly admitting to kicking his wife, Rosalind, in the legs during an argument a 1991 argument.
'If the leaders of USSF, the United States Soccer Federation believe that Gregg Berhalter is the best person for the job, that should not change relative to what has happened,' Lalas said on his State of the Union podcast.
The mother of US player Gio Reyna, Danielle, has admitted to telling US Soccer officials about the 1991 kicking incident, ostensibly in an effort to force Berhalter out as manager. Danielle was a college teammate and roommate of Berhalter's wife, Rosalind, at the University of North Carolina at the time. Her husband, former US soccer star Claudio Reyna, was a high school teammate of Berhalter's, and the two later played together on the national team.
Alexi Lalas doubles down on wanting Gregg Berhalter to remain as USMNT head coach
Berhalter is currently out of contract as he is investigated by the US soccer federation
'And that's what was irritating. And continues to be irritating and angering to me. That, that is now becoming part of the assessment of Gregg Berhalter. And that's what I find wrong, that's what I find unfair.'
Lalas would go on to say that he still believes national team coaches should not be able to stay with a team for more than one World Cup cycle, but he is prepared to change the way that he feels ' in order to stop a good man from getting screwed.'
During his previous remarks the former defender said: 'There's part of me now that has gone the way of thinking that I actually want Gregg Berhalter to remain as the head coach.'
'This goes against everything I believe in in terms of multiple cycles, but this is where my sadness that I talked about last week has turned into anger; I am angry that Gregg Berhalter is going to be denied the opportunity, even though I don't think you should continue for multiple cycles, for what has ultimately happened to him. I think it is BS and I think it is unfair.'
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