In 2007, Bradley's team lost to Argentina in the tournament opener 4–1. The game marked Bradley's first away game with the national team and their first loss in over a year since the 2006 World Cup. Things wouldn't improve much for U.S. Soccer which earned a 2–2 draw in the annual Mexico friendly before going on to lose 2–0 away to England, 1–0 away to Spain, and held Argentina to a 0–0 drawback at their home turf. In 2009, Bradley led the U.S. team to a second-place finish in the 2009 Confederations Cup after a 2–0 semi-final win over European champions Spain. The loss ended the Spaniards' 35-game winning streak.
During his career, Bradley coached around the world including for Egypt who announced they had made him head coach on November 14, 2001. Egypt lost in a friendly against Brazil 2–0, but Bradley remained with the team and which earned him praise for remaining in Egypt despite the unrest following the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Bradley would also go on to become the first American to manage a club in a European top flight when he agreed to manage Stabæk Football in Norway. Bradley left Norway in 2015 to pursue other goals.
Bradley was appointed as the new Swansea City manager on October 3, 2016. On December 27, 2016, he was fired by Swansea after only 85 days and 11 games making it the shortest reign of any manager in the history of the Premier League. On July 27, 2017, Bradley was revealed as the Los Angeles FC's first head coach. Los Angeles FC is an expansion MLS team that started playing in the 2018 season. The team would go on to gain a victory during their first game ever on March 4, 2018, against the Seattle Sounders.
Personal Life:
Sports apparently runs in the family for the Bradleys, he even has a brother named Scott Bradley who played for the Seattle Mariners before going to play for three mother Major League Baseball Teams in the 1980's and 90's. His brother Scott is the current baseball coach at Princeton University while another brother, Jeff Bradley, works for ESPN and the New York Daily News as a sports journalist. Bradley married a former University of Virginia lacrosse player named Lindsay. The pair had a son named Michael together who went on to be drafted by the MetroStars in the 2004 MLS SuperDraft.
His son Michael also played in thein the Eredivisie, Bundesliga, Premier League, and Serie A. Eventually, Michael transferred to Toronto FC in January of 2014. He currently is captain of the U.S. national team. Bradley also has a daughter with Lindsey named Ryan. Ryan Bradley would go on to marry a professional soccer player for the Scottish Motherwells.
Return to the previous page| Birth Date: | 3 Mar, 1958 |
| Age: | 62 yrs |
| Occupations: | Association football manager |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Montclair |
| Education: | Princeton University Ohio State University |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | American association football player and manager |
| Net Worth 2021: | 43 million |
