Managers

The world found out who Anthony Martial was the way you or I found out about a movie like Sharknado.

16 thousand people crowded into Dick’s Sporting Goods park to watch the Colorado Rapids beat Sporting Kansas City in what some are calling the Rapids’ best home game of the year. Though, the result was not always secure. 

After a scoreless first half, things took a turn for the worse when Sporting’s Dom Dwyer scored from close range just two minutes into the second. But, the Rapids responded. 

Mexico's national team has found its coach, at least for the moment.

Brazilian Ricardo Ferretti, who manages Tigres in Liga MX and once said he would rather be a street sweeper than the coach of the Mexico national team, has been named the interim coach of the Mexico national team.

This season brings with it a new face to European football: the face of Major League Baseball-esque statistical analysis. In March, Dutch side AZ Alkmaar hired Billy Beane as an official advisor.  

While the manager (he's now the general manager) of the MLB's Oakland Athletics, Beane helped usher in the strategy of using statistical analysis to identify and recruit players who are undervalued in order to compete with teams that have larger budgets.

Arsenal fans were left shocked this past Saturday as West Ham defeated the title hopefuls 2-0 in the season opener. This was supposed to be Arsenal’s season; with a strong finish last season the Gunners were expected to continue where they left off. But instead, they looked flat and lacked any real sense of urgency.

Aston Villa will host Manchester United this weekend in their first home opener match at Villa Park and will look for a second win despite many pivotal players leaving the club. At least Christian Benteke will start for Villa as a striker, right? As far as Neil Warnock is concerned, Tim Sherwood will play Benteke up front with Fabian Delph right behind him in central midfield. 

You could make a very real case that Bayern Munich is the hardest team to coach in the world right now. Its talent level means that expectations are sky high every year; winning the league is not an accomplishment anymore, it’s an appetizer that temporarily satisfies the hunger for success before the main course of Champions League glory. 

Marcelo Bielsa is one of the most respected coaches in the world. Accordingly, it is no surprise that fans of El Tri and the Mexican media have tipped him as one of the favorites to fill the current Mexican managerial void. But, it seems, the current Marseille manager has no intention of leaving his Ligue 1 side, and is quite excited about getting his French league season underway. 

Following the USWNT's World Cup win last month, coach Jill Ellis has been handed a new contract, which is expected to last through the 2019 World Cup and possibly beyond.

Ellis's former contract could have kept her at the helm of the USWNT for up to five more years, but instead she and US Soccer voided that one and hammered out a new contract.

In one of the more hilarious beefs in recent memory, Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has engaged in a little verbal spat with Real Madrid manager Rafa Benitez's wife. 

What happened was Benitez's wife gave a rare interview in which she joked that because Benitez seems to manage teams soon after Mourinho manages them, she and Benitez "clean up his messes."