Robert Frank Bradley was born on March 3,1958 and is an American soccer coach who is the head coach and sporting director of Toronto FC.
27 Facts About Bob Bradley
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Bob Bradley's team reached the last 16 of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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Bob Bradley moved on to French club Le Havre and Welsh side Swansea City, becoming the first American to manage a Premier League club, but was fired less than three months later.
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Bob Bradley returned to MLS, managing Los Angeles FC and Toronto FC.
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Bob Bradley was born and raised in New Jersey, playing soccer at West Essex High School and Princeton University.
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Bob Bradley led the Tigers from 1984 to 1995, winning two Ivy League titles and reaching the NCAA Final Four in 1993.
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In 1996, Bob Bradley was hired again as Arena's assistant, this time with DC United of Major League Soccer, the then newly formed US professional league.
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Bob Bradley steered the newly assembled squad to the MLS Cup and US Open Cup double in its first season and was named MLS Coach of the Year for his achievements.
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Bob Bradley won a third trophy in 2000, when the Fire again won the Open Cup.
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Bob Bradley began his tenure with the historically underachieving team headed in the right direction as the MetroStars advanced to the US Open Cup final for the first time in club history in 2003 as well as earning a playoff berth.
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Bob Bradley gained attention for an infamous incident in a match against DC United that season in which he exploited an MLS rule allowing a 4th substitution for a goalkeeper by switching starting goalkeeper Tim Howard into an outfield player so that midfielder Eddie Gaven could enter the game classified as a goalkeeper, before switching positions with Howard after ten seconds of play.
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Bob Bradley stayed with the MetroStars for three years before he was fired with three games left in the 2005 regular season.
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Shortly after leaving the MetroStars, Bob Bradley was named the coach at Los Angeles club Chivas USA for the 2006 season.
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Bob Bradley revived a Chivas USA team that had endured a poor inaugural season in 2005, discovering young talents such as Sacha Kljestan and Jonathan Bornstein and leading the team to a third-place finish in the Western Conference before losing in the playoffs to eventual champions Houston Dynamo.
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On September 14,2011, Bob Bradley reached a deal to take over as manager of the Egypt national team beginning October 15,2011.
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Bob Bradley was praised for choosing to live in Egypt despite the unrest following the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and continuing to guide the Pharaohs despite the suspension of the Egyptian Premier League following the Port Said Stadium riot.
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On November 10,2015, Bob Bradley was officially named as the new manager of French Ligue 2 side Le Havre AC, signing a two-year contract.
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Bob Bradley led the team to a tie on points with FC Metz for third place in the league and the final promotion place, but the team was left in fourth based on the goals scored tiebreaker.
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On October 3,2016, Bob Bradley was appointed as the new Swansea City manager after Francesco Guidolin's dismissal.
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Bob Bradley is a good man; a good person who gave everything to the job.
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Bob Bradley's work-rate is phenomenal and we wish him well for the future.
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At Swansea, Bob Bradley had been criticized for using American soccer vocabulary such as "PK" for a penalty kick and "road game" for what the British call an away game.
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Bob Bradley defended himself by saying that the vocabulary for the game varies in every country.
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On July 27,2017, Bob Bradley was announced as the team's first head coach for the inaugural season of Los Angeles FC, an expansion MLS team that started playing in the 2018 season.
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On November 24,2021, Bob Bradley was announced as head coach and sporting director of Toronto FC, reuniting with his son Michael, who has been the club's captain since 2015.
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Bob Bradley is married to Lindsay, a former University of Virginia lacrosse player.
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Bob Bradley has a daughter named Ryan, who is married to Andy Rose, a former professional soccer player for Vancouver Whitecaps FC and current assistant coach for Seattle Sounders.