So three days after coaching the Los Angeles Football Club to a gutsy win over Seattle in the first game in franchise history, Bradley stood in the middle of a training field at UCLA, waving his arms like a traffic cop as players hung tight to his instructions.
A few minutes later he strode to the sidelines and imparted wisdom of a different kind. The MLS season is just one game old and already Bradley has scratched one player because of injury, saw another enter the final week of the preseason with his status uncertain while a third hasn't practiced in more than a month.