The American dream wasn’t exactly a nightmare for Nacho Novo, but he’s had no sleepless nights over his decision to quit his first-head coach role after only a month.
The former Rangers striker is back in the UK after a two-year Stateside stint in Kentucky with Lexington SC in the third tier of the American pyramid, if you can call it that.
After all, you can climb up or slide down a pyramid – but with no promotion or relegation in the US soccer system, there’s nowhere to go and that was a frustration for the competitive animal that still snarls inside Novo.
The Spaniard enjoyed a superb six-year Ibrox career, winning three league titles and scoring the penalty that took Walter Smith’s men to the final of the 2008 UEFA Cup.
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