Post by bogan on Sept 21, 2021 15:37:49 GMT -5
USMNT Coach Gregg Berhalter Explains His Decision to Discipline Weston McKennie
So when we learned of this, it was about just understanding first. The first thing I did is go to Weston and confronted Weston and say, 'O.K., did this happen?' And give him a lot of credit, he looked me in the eye and said, 'Yes, this did happen.' And I said, 'O.K. now let's talk about what’s next.' The first thing is this was the day of the game that we’re having this conversation and I said, 'You’re not going to be playing this game today. And it hurts me to tell you this, but that’s how it’s going to be.' And I think that gave us a little bit of time.
"But the next thing was where do you go from there? And then it was about talking to the staff about it and talking about what our values are as a group and what we represent. And as we were doing that it started to become more clear what the answer was, and again it’s not to hang Weston out to dry.“
Full article here
www.si.com/soccer/2021/09/21/weston-mckennie-usmnt-camp-gregg-berhalter-punishment
