On Saturday, when he leads Swansea against Arsenal, Bob Bradley will become the first American to coach in the top-flight of a major European league. But among the things that make him different, his heritage is possibly the least relevant when it comes to assessing his chances for success.
So much about him is unorthodox.
Bradley played at Princeton University but never professionally -- in fact, he stopped playing at age 22 -- and, for the first 15 years of his coaching career, he didn't even coach professionals.
In 2011, he chose to go and coach Egypt, that extraordinary enigma in African football: dominant at the Nations' Cup, regularly failing to qualify for the World Cup.