In the midst of the panic swirling around the U.S. national team and the exodus underway with the Galaxy, the man whose name has wound up in the middle of both situations choses to remain quiet.
“I’m quite comfortable being in the background,” Bruce Arena said Friday.
Maybe. But that won’t last forever.
Silence doesn’t suit Arena, who has always been a foreground kind of guy. In a previous stint as coach of the national team, he made it to a World Cup quarterfinal and won a national-record 71 games. With the Galaxy, he made it to the conference semifinals seven times in eight full seasons and won three MLS Cups.