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New York Red Bulls: Jesse Marsch is gone but the Red Bulls will be fine

By John Carroll Jr.

MONTREAL, QC - MARCH 12: Jesse Marsch head coach of the New York Red Bulls looks on during the MLS game against the Montreal Impact at the Olympic Stadium on March 12, 2016 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Impact defeated the New York Red Bulls 3-0. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)
MONTREAL, QC - MARCH 12: Jesse Marsch head coach of the New York Red Bulls looks on during the MLS game against the Montreal Impact at the Olympic Stadium on March 12, 2016 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Impact defeated the New York Red Bulls 3-0. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images) /
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The New York Red Bulls have officially announced that Jesse Marsch is leaving Red Bull’s MLS Club to pursue opportunities with a sister club in Europe. His assistant Chris Armas has been promoted to head coach.

The New York Red Bulls going from Jesse Marsch to Chris Armas is not ideal but definitely not going to halt their progress too much.

Despite losing their coach in the middle of what has been a great season, the Red Bulls will be just fine without him.

Of course, there will be a few hiccups and learning curves along the way for Armas and whatever changes he makes but the Red Bulls are in a great spot.

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For this Red Bulls team, talent trumps all.

This core of RBNY players are good. Yes, Marsch balanced out the starting lineups and helped get the most out of them but the talent on this team is immense. A lot of the talent is homegrown and already morphed into a solid player.

Under Marsch, we have seen Florian Valot is come into his own, Bradley Wright-Phillips emerge into a megastar, and Kaku arrive.

However, a lot of what Marsch did will not just go away because he was gone. Taking away the fact that his replacement is a shell of him, there are other factors why the Red Bulls will be fine.

There are not outside competitions left. That is a good thing for New York. Armas can acclimate to being a head coach without having to have multiple games a week and playing in all sorts of outside Cups or comps.

The focus, the sole focus that Marsch has will remain untouched. The Red Bulls are going all in to win the MLS Cup.

Even if the Red Bulls have a slight fall off, it will just be from the change of scenery and not literally having Marsch on the sideline.

It is more about how the Red Bulls, in terms of talent, culture, and mentality will stay the same. A lot of the things that got the Red Bulls this far do not involve brilliant coaching, just solid coaching.

It is the same reason the Red Bulls won the Supporters Shield in 2015 in Marsch’s first full season. They are just a talented and deep organization from the bottom up.

Has Marsch done a great job? Absolutely he has. He earned his right to go coach in Bundesliga. However, this is a next man up team.

Despite being good, the team has overcome adversity all season. As I have previously written, they are out of excuses. There is nothing this team hasn’t shown they cannot overcome anymore.

Losing their coach in the middle of the season does not change that, it will just keep lighting the fuel to the fire.

Every loss stinks. But you got to be happy for Jesse Marsch it is just the reality of being a supporter of the Red Bull family.

Plus, any team that has a scorer as prolific as Bradley Wright-Phillips helps. That guy can be coached by an actual red bull and he would still be an elite MLS goal scorer.

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So, thanks Jesse Marsch and good luck in Europe. But I am most looking forward to seeing how good the Red Bulls continue to be. Hopefully, they prove me right for once.

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