Getting fired was just another setback in a soccer career full of them for new Orlando City coach Jason Kreis.
Failure has been an ongoing theme in his life, but so has overcoming it.
Kreis was never the best player, never what he called "gifted." Nothing came easy; he worked hard for the success. So why should it be any different during his coaching career? Still, that didn't make it sting any less when the New York City FC fired him eight months ago after one season of what Kreis thought was a long-term process of building a new expansion team from the ground up.