Seven of the eight United States Soccer Federation Presidential candidates shared their platform at the United Soccer Coaches Convention in Philadelphia this week. The forums offered the industry, and voters, an opportunity to compare almost all candidates in a similar format.
I sat through over seven hours of presentations (they all ran long), questions from angry members of the U.S. Soccer community, and a variety of answers, and summarized my personal observations about each candidate. Repeated themes related to lack of transparency, equality and inclusion emerged and became the calling cards of many candidates.
Quick disclosure: I selected the good parts of the presentation and parts that I thought were concerning.