Amid upheaval and uncertainty, there’s an American soccer constant: if it’s January, then Dave Sarachan is coaching in Carson.
The Upstate New Yorker has made his professional home in Southern California, where, for the 10th straight winter, he’s working with players at the StubHub Center campus just outside L.A. The setting is comfortable and consistent. The circumstances this time around, however, are anything but—for both Sarachan and the sport at large.
“I don’t brag, and I don’t talk about myself much. But one thing I know about myself is that I think I’m a steadying influence,” he said.