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Sunil Gulati, U.S. Soccer's puppet master, needs to step aside

After decades helping build U.S. Soccer into a giant compared to the organization it was before he arrived, Gulati may want to quit while he's ahead

U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati spent decades behind the scenes in American soccer, helping grow the sport as one of its most influential leaders. It is that history that surely has Gulati feeling like he deserves a chance to finish the work he has started.

A growing number of people in American soccer disagree, and suddenly the man who used to thrive behind the scenes is front and center as the target of growing resentment that has him standing now as the most-hated man in American soccer.