Ryan Loses Head Coaching Job

According to http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=474885&cc=5901 coach Greg Ryan of the women’s U.S. soccer team lost his job recently. He was fired even after having a record of 45-1-9, which is quite amazing and very hard to do in soccer. What was believed to be the main cause of the firing of coach Ryan was his decision in this years women’s World Cup semi-finals game to switch goalkeepers, while his current goalkeeper was doing a fine job and had only lost one game in the World Cup. In doing this his team lost the game and it was blamed on his decision to switch goalkeepers. Now in my opinion I don’t think that it was fare for them to fire him just because of one bad decision. As I said before he went 45-1-9 which is an unbelievable record and if you achieve that you should be kept around for many years to come. The U.S. Soccer president said that there was more than one reason as to why they fired coach Ryan but it can easily be believed that it was mainly for his decision to change the keeper. Not only did they lose to Brazil in the semi-final but they got crushed four to nothing which is a huge loss and that was said to be the main reason as to why he was fired. I still don’t think that he should have lost his job no matter how big the margin of loss was, it just doesn’t seem fair. Now if his record was much worse and he didn’t have as many wins then yes I think that he would have deserved to be fired, but the fact that he had such a great record means there is no way he should be fired.