Bob Bradley's off to a sparkling start with new team LAFC, but with some time to reflect on his last job, he admitted he had some regrets about what happened.
Bradley spoke to ESPN's Taylor Twellman ahead of the MLS regular season, and when asked about his stint coaching Premier League side Swansea City in 2016, with the team mired in a relegation battle and where he lasted just 11 games before being fired, Bradley was candid in looking back.
"When Swansea came, I knew the pluses and the minuses," Bradley said. "Do I have regrets? I wish they hadn't come and called, quite honestly, in that respect because the situation required real work and some time, and if they didn't think I was the right guy, and everybody wasn't on board -- and 'everybody' needed to not just be the two American owners, but the chairman, the supporters' trust and more of the supporters -- look, if they didn't think I was the right guy, they shouldn't have called.
"Now, when they called, and I spoke to them and I told them how I felt, when the moment came to go for it? Yeah, I said, 'Look, the hell, man, I'm going!'
"If you have second thoughts and doubts you don't go anywhere. I wouldn't have gone to Egypt, I wouldn't have gone to Norway, I'd still be in college soccer."
Bradley's LAFC won 1-0 over the Seattle Sounders on Sunday to open their history. Bradley is the only manager to have led an MLS expansion team to a road win in the first game, and he's done it twice, also doing it in 1998 with the Chicago Fire.
