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Early Life and Education:

Robert "Bob" Bradley was born March 3, 1958, in New Jersey, USA, where he grew up playing soccer. He went on to play soccer at West Essex High School. After graduating high school, Bradley went on to graduate from Princeton University. Robert Bradley briefly worked in the Procter & Gamble executive training program before entering the Ohio University Sports management graduate school in 1981 where he was ultimately named head coach of the Ohio University Bobcats' NCAA Division I soccer program.

Bradley was only 22 when he was named head coach. He spent two seasons at Ohio before moving on to work as an assistant coach and scout for the University of Virginia. He spent two years working for the universities manager Bruce Arena before eventually taking a job at his former University, Princeton.

Career:

Bradley's career in Major League Soccer began in 1996 when he was hired again as Arena's assistant, this time with the newly formed U.S. professional league named D.C. United of Major League Soccer. After two champion seasons with DC, Bradley became the first head coach of the Chicago Fire, an expansion team that began playing in 1998. Bradley took the newly formed ensemble to the MLS Cup and U.S. Open Cup in its first season earning him the award for MLS Coach of the year. The Chicago Fire would go on to win a third trophy in 2000 in the Open Cup.

Bradley took a year off and resigned as manager of the Chicago Fire after the 2002 MLS season. He returned to New Jersey where he would become head coach of the MetroStars. Bradley began working with the team and the team's whole direction changed. For the first time in club history, the MetroStars earned a spot in the playoffs in 2003 after just one year of help from Bradley. He would stay with the MetroStars for another three years before he was fired in the 2005 regular season after the club suffered a series of back-to-back defeats.

After leaving the MetroStars, it didn't take Bradley long to find work. He was soon named the manager at Los Angeles club Chivas USA for the 2006 season. After the team had a rough year in 2005, Bradley managed to revive a Chivas USA team discovering talents such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_Kljestan">Sacha Kljestan</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Bornstein">Jonathan Bornstein</a> along the way. He would eventually lead the team to a third-place finish in the Western Conference before losing to the Houston Dynamo. After U.S. men's national team's disappointing showing at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, U.S. Soccer named Bradley the interim manager on December 8, 2006.

His first few years with U.S. Soccer proved successfully and after a series of wins including a 2-0 over Mexico, U.S. Soccer removed Bradley's interim title and officially named him manager on May 15, 2007. Bradley would go on to lead the United States to the 2007 Gold Cup Final, where it beat Mexico 2-1 for the second time in four months. During his first year as manager, Bradley built an impressive resume of 12 wins, 1 draw, and 5 losses and event undefeated for ten games over a period of five months. Despite his success and the Gold Cup victory, the U.S. didn't do as well in the following couple years.

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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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaniards">Spaniards</a>' 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Bradley">Ryan</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Bradley">Ryan Bradley</a> would go on to marry a professional soccer player for the Scottish Motherwells.

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