”The Clippers were fortunate, hiring Aleksandar Obradovic from Red Star Belgrade and the Yugoslavia national team. But he will be remembered best at the end of every regular season, when a new batch of coaches and general managers are fired and teams scramble to find their successors. Anyone even slightly aware of US Soccer’s fraught history could have recognized the xenophobic history of that canard. The MLS of 2017 doesn’t really need Howard to be its best player.