Free Kicks: Gooch Never Forgets

“Gooch? More like Cooch!”

Gooch remembered back to when Bob Bradley made that light-hearted quip at his expense on the team’s first day of training under their new manager. The rest of his teammates laughed. Gooch did not. Instead, he swore his revenge and waited until the time was right.

Now, almost two years later, as he watched Bradley speak to reporters ahead of the team’s first match in Cuba in since 1947, Gooch knew the time for vengeance had come. But how to do it? There were many ways – knives, rope, toilet drowning, bare-handed death grip. No matter which option he decided upon, Gooch knew two things:

1) He would have the last laugh.

2) Bob Bradley would be dead by morning.

[Photo: © U.S. Soccer/USSoccer.com]

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