Caribbean Times 42nd Issue - 23rd November 2016

Wednesday 23rd November 2016 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 19
Bruce Arena returns as US coach,
replacing Jurgen Klinsmann
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Barbados
Pride pulled off an emphatic victory
over Trinidad and Tobago Red Force
here Monday, when they crushed their
perennial arch-rivals by 292 runs, to
notch their first win of the newly minted
Regional Four-Day Championship.
The visitors secured victory in the
first over after lunch on the final day of
the second round contest as Red Force
crumbled for an embarrassing 99 in their
second innings, in pursuit of an unlikely
target of 392 at Queen’s Park Oval.
Pride’s assault was led by captain
Kevin Stoute who snatched three for 14
while fellow seamer, Test bowler Kemar
Roach, finished with three 33.
NEW YORK -- Bruce
Arena was a decade removed
from the U.S. national team
when he received a telephone
call from U.S. Soccer Federation
Secretary General Dan
Flynn on Sunday asking him
to meet with USSF President
Sunil Gulati the following
day.
By midday Tuesday,
the winningest coach in the
team’s history regained the
job he had not wanted to give
up.
“I never expected to be
back in this role the way it
came about over the last 48
hours,” Arena explained. “I
hate to say this now to Sunil:
I would’ve done this for free.”
A day after Jurgen Klinsmann
was fired following
two losses that began the final
round of World Cup qualifying,
Arena agreed to a contract
running through the 2018
tournament in Russia.
With the Americans 0-2
at this stage for the first time,
the USSF wants to spark a
turnaround when competition
resumes March 24 with
a home game against Honduras
followed four days later
with a match at Panama. The
65-year-old Arena, inducted
into the U.S. National Soccer
Hall of Fame in 2010, starts
work Dec. 1.
“We need to build the
chemistry of this team and
have a common goal and really
work on a team concept,”
he said during a telephone
news conference. “I really
believe individually and positionally
we have good players
and we’ve just got to get them
working together as a team.
Resuming the day on 57 for three,
Red Force lost their last six wickets for
42 runs – with opener Jeremy Solozano
again unable to bat because of illness.
Other than Kyle Hope (26) and Yannic
Cariah (25) who perished on Sunday’s
third day, no other batsman made it
into double figures.
Pride were forced to wait until the
eighth over of the morning before finding
success when Roach had captain Yannick
Ottley, yet to score overnight, caught at
the wicket for two with the score on 64.
In the very next over, left-arm spinner
Jomel Warrican had nightwatchman
Marlon Richards caught at bat-pad for
seven without any addition to the overall
Bruce Arena returns as US coach.
“There are no real secrets time, a little bit patience and a
on how you build good teams: lot of hard work.”
It takes a lot of hard work, it Arena first took over as
takes communication, it takes national team coach after the
discipline and it takes some 1998 World Cup and led the
talent, and I think we have U.S. to a 71-30-29 record. Gulati
fired him, failed to reach a
enough talent to build a good
team and end up in Russia deal with Klinsmann and then
2018. It’s going to take a little brought in Bob Bradley. (AP)
Pride crush Red Force to snare first win
score, to leave Red Force reeling.
Debutant Jyd Goolie spent 46 minutes
and 26 balls over nine before he was
bowled by Stoute who struck again in his
next over by removing Roshon Primus to
a catch at the wicket for two, at 80 for
seven.
Wicketkeeper Steven Katwaroo holed
out in the deep off pacer Justin Greaves
for eight before lunch as the Red Force
innings lay in ruins at 99 for eight at the
interval. And Roach applied the finishing
touches immediately following the break
when he bowled Jon-Russ Jaggesar for
three. For their efforts, Pride took away
18.4 points while Red Force mustered
four. (CMC)