Berhalter agrees to return as US soccer national team coach

Gregg Berhalter has agreed to return as U.S. national team coach, a little over 5 months after his contract expired amid conflict with the Reyna family and an investigation of a three-decades-old domestic violence investigation.

Berhalter agreed to coach the team for the upcoming 2026 World Cup, AP reports.

The U.S. Soccer Federation was likely to make an announcement Friday, the information says.

“I’m confused… If you go back with Berhalter then we’ve wasted a lot of time. Why have we wasted this much time to go back with who we had in the beginning?”@Clint_dempsey reacts to the reports of Gregg Berhalter returning as manager of the #USMNT. pic.twitter.com/22Y6yTQBdS

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Berhalter, 49, was hired in December 2018 after the failure to qualify for that year’s tournament and coached the Americans to the second round of last year’s World Cup, where they were eliminated with a 3-1 loss to the Netherlands. The U.S. gets an automatic berth in the 2026 World Cup as co-host with Mexico and Canada.