Brad Friedel

New England Revolution manager Brad Friedel is still not entirely happy with the fitness levels of his squad, even with the season a couple of matches. Brad Friedel is in his first major role as a manager after taking over at the Revolution for the 2018 MLS campaign. However, the former Tottenham and Blackburn goalkeeper has made a disastrous start in his new role. The team has picked up just one win in three league matches, although they are unbeaten in the last two.

The Revolution made a losing start to the season after a poor loss against Philadelphia Union in the first match. Even though the last two matches have been at home in New England, the games at the Gillette stadium have not provided the team with enough three points. After the recent with New York City, Brad Friedel admitted that his team was maybe only at 70% of the fitness levels that he likes to have in the setup.

New England Revolution manager Brad Friedel claims that he has learned a lot from the game over his extended career as a goalkeeper. The 46-year-old played for the likes of Blackburn and Tottenham during a lengthy career, which primarily saw him play his football in the Premier league.

After recently returning back to the United States, Friedel has been expressing an interest in the coaching side of things. He received his first major break as the manager of the under 19 United States team. Now, he has just been appointed as the coach of New England Revolution, who had a pretty mediocre 2017 MLS campaign.

The lack of experience has been cited as a concern for New England Revolution ahead of the 2018 campaign. However, Friedel says that he has gained an impressive knowledge of managing the game over the course of his two decade long career. Since starting out in 1994, Friedel made the switch to European football in 1995 with Galatasaray. Even though he briefly returned to the United States for a spell with Columbus Crew, he is largely known for his time in English football with the likes of Liverpool, Blackburn, Aston Villa, and Tottenham. Since his retirement in 2015, he has been working with a lot of coaches too. After having played under several top coaches in his career, Friedel says that he will look to transfer the experience into the MLS.

Brad Friedel has taken over the head-coaching job at New England Revolution in the MLS and is the first management role of his career for the 46-year-old.

The former USA, Aston Villa, and Blackburn goalkeeper took over the reins earlier this week having been coach for the United States under-19 team.

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Brad Friedel says that he is extremely happy that he has been accepted by English football fans as one of their own.

The American goalkeeper is one of the instantly recognisable names with regard to the last 25 years of the Premier League, as he spent the majority of his time playing for the likes of Blackburn and Aston Villa. He still holds the record for the most number of consecutive appearances, as it stands at 310. Friedel says that it was initially tough for him to convince fans in his first few years in English football, as there was a tendency to look American players as not being good enough for English football.

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Former Tottenham goalkeeper Brad Friedel has seen players of position struggled to perform well at Liverpool under several managers.

Jurgen Klopp brought in Loris Karius as an option in the summer. After having managed to replace Belgian Simon Mignolet for much of the first half of the campaign, the German has lost his place in the Liverpool first-team. Both goalkeepers, though, have failed to provide confidence, as they have committed grave mistakes in the past. Even then, Friedel does not expect Klopp to step into the transfer market in January and strengthen the goalkeeper position.