With lively NFL gamers now cleared to play flag soccer within the 2028 Olympics, loads of questions stay.
Right here’s one: Who will coach a staff made up of professional soccer gamers?
We’ve already heard from one head coach who’s involved in doing it. Others could possibly be, too. The coach will get a gold medal, too.
When the Olympics accepted NBA gamers for the primary time in 1992, NBA head coach Chuck Daly led the staff. However worldwide basketball is principally the identical recreation. 5-on-five flag soccer is just not the identical as 11-on-11 deal with.
Jorge Cascudo and assistant coach Patrick Alley at the moment lead the U.S. males’s nationwide flag soccer staff. Each are getting into their fourth yr on the job.
Cascudo is a long-time flag soccer participant and coach. However he’s by no means handled the distinctive process of incomes and retaining the respect of NFL athletes. If NFL gamers are going to be horning in on turf at the moment occupied by long-time flag soccer gamers, why wouldn’t NFL coaches be involved in main the cost?
If not a present NFL coach, how a couple of sure six-time Tremendous Bowl-winning coach who’ll seemingly in any other case by no means have an opportunity to educate NFL gamers once more?
It’s simply one other of the numerous questions USA Soccer (and the NFL) should reply, now that the league has determined to dip a toe in Olympic waters.
