This offseason, Tab Ramos, National Soccer Hall of Fame member and U.S. Men’s National Team legend, takes the Houston Dynamo head coaching helm. Along with him come assistant coaches, Pablo Mastroeni and Omid Namazi.
MLS followers will know Mastroeni well. As Colorado Rapids head coach, he led the team to a franchise-record 58 points in 2016. The team went to the Western Conference finals that season but Mastroeni was fired the next year after a substantial drop in performance.
When he gets to speak, Mastroeni is known to whimsically muse on soccer’s essence, the qualities beyond strategy and tactics.