Kyle Martino has been a soccer star at the University of Virginia and the U.S. Men’s national team. He’s one of 22 players in MLS history to be named rookie of the year in what was a distinguished professional soccer career. He has a face and an equally iconic head of hair that most American soccer fans are used to seeing on NBC’s team of Premier League analysts on Saturday and Sunday mornings. But this Saturday, Martino will be hoping to become the face of the U.S. Soccer Federation — entering Saturday’s election of a new USSF president hoping to turn the reeling organization around after the men’s team failed to qualify for the World Cup.

Download Free Adler 30 Mechanics Manuals here. Martino’s presidential candidacy was set into motion Oct. 10, as the United States men’s soccer team finished its disastrous 2018 World Cup qualifying season with one of its most infamous games in recent history — a 2-1 loss to Caribbean minnows Trinidad and Tobago, when only a draw was needed to send the team to Russia for the 2018 tournament.

“That was heartbreaking as a soccer fan,” said Martino, adding that two of the biggest moments of his soccer education came from watching the 1994 men’s and 1999 women’s World Cups on American soil. “Not being in that tournament is heartbreaking, but it really just created an opportunity to reflect and be self-aware and realize that the (U.S. Soccer) Federation has lost touch with its membership.” Former Virginia coach Bruce Arena stepped down from his post as coach of the men’s national team almost immediately after the Trinidad & Tobago loss. USSF president Sunil Gulati eventually announced he wouldn’t be seeking re-election after serving as president for a record three terms. Martino said that in the aftermath of events that led to the failure to qualify, comments made by USSF showed that the organization didn’t see that the failure to qualify for the World Cup was only one symptom of what had become what he called a “systemic” issue that needed to be fixed.

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