Adedokun Waliyu 
Bob Bradley has been fired as coach of Toronto FC after the club struggled to collect just three wins in 20 league games this season and finds itself just four points from the bottom of the Eastern Conference MLS standings.
Bradley, who was hired in November 2021, posted a 14-19-26 (W-D-L) record during his time in charge of the club, which has now gone through three coaches since Greg Vanney left at the end of 2020.
The team is winless (two defeats to go with three draws) in its last five games.
Terry Dunfield, who was in charge of the club’s U17 academy team, has been appointed interim head coach.
Injuries have been a factor this season for the team, but Bradley’s role in its failures was raised by Italian star Federico Bernardeschi after a 1-0 loss to Austin FC on May 20.
“We don’t play,” said the Italian star, the fourth-highest paid player in the league at $6.295 million this season, after the 91st-minute loss. “We play long pass. We don’t have an idea to play.”
“I think this city, the fans, everybody, don’t deserve this,” he added. “And I think maybe we need to change something. We need a little bit more tactics. We need an idea how we play, because this is the real problem for me. It’s impossible to play like this when we play without (an) idea.”
Bernardeschi was subsequently benched for the next game, which Bradley denied was disciplinary, calling it instead a “coach’s decision.” Toronto FC won that game, 2-1 against D.C. United, and picked up a 0-0 draw against Chicago in the next game with the Italian back in the lineup. But that did not stop the home crowd at BMO Field from booing him loudly at both games.
Bradley, 65, arrived in Toronto after four years with Los Angeles FC, where his team posted a 68-34-40 (win-draw-loss) record and collected the Supporters’ Shield in 2019 for having the best regular-season record. Toronto was his fifth MLS job, having also coached clubs in Egypt, Norway, the Netherlands, and the U.K. He was in charge of the U.S. National Men’s Team from 2006-11.
