VANCOUVER, BC – In March of this year, John Herdman had his first meeting with Russell Teibert after taking over as head coach of the Canadian men’s national team.
“I just got a sense of what his motivations were and how he was feeling,” Herdman said of the meeting, which took place at the Whitecaps FC training centre in Vancouver.
It was an honest discussion, in which Teibert spoke openly about some of his past experiences.
“I got a sense that he had sort of fallen out of love with the national team,” Herdman continued.