Unbe lievable: Misunderstanding has resulted in the suspension of Minnesota United FC head coach
Adrian Heath, the coach of Minnesota United, stated on Wednesday that he was unable to file an appeal against his suspension for accruing cards.
For Saturday’s game against Austin FC, assistant coach Sean McAuley will stand in for Heath while he wears a headset in a coach’s booth. Heath will be permitted to speak with others for ninety minutes prior to the Allianz Field game’s 7:30 p.m. start time.
“I mean, I don’t want to sit upstairs and have the earpiece on,” Heath replied. “I enjoy being down there because it seems like you can occasionally have some influence over it. Yet things are as they are. I’m not the original one. I am not the last.
At the end of the Loons’ 4-1 victory, he received his sixth yellow card of the year.
Late in the Loons’ 4-1 victory over the Portland Timbers this past weekend, he received his sixth yellow card of the year after referee Lukasz Szpala called a contentious foul on Ďario Zuparić.
Heath’s frustrations didn’t seem to start there, but rather at that point of conflict. After more than ninety minutes of play, the Timbers had only one yellow card, compared to four different Loons players receiving one in the first thirty-four minutes of play.
“I just thought the circumstances of the suspension were a little bit difficult, when the referee tells you he’s made a mistake and then you get punished for reacting to something that was clearly a really poor decision,” Heath stated.
On Thursday, Pukki will join Heath’s team.
Due to Heath’s impasse with the MLS, Teemu Pukki, a well-known striker from Finland who was signed by the Loons last week as a designated player, may make his debut on Saturday without his new head coach in attendance.
