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Gulati's influence in American soccer won't die with his USSF presidency

Sunil Gulati's decision to not seek re-election as U.S. Soccer president will not end his reign as an American soccer power broker

Friends, Americans, soccer fans, lend me your eyes.

I come to bury Sunil Gulati's U.S. Soccer presidency, not to praise it.

The evil that men do lives after them. The good is often interred with their bones. So let it be with Gulati's presidency.

Mark Antony's eulogy from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar came to mind when the news hit on Monday night that Sunil Gulati was bowing out from running for re-election as U.