The U.S. soccer landscape was rocked Tuesday afternoon after a series of statements unveiled that men’s national team coach Gregg Berhalter kicked his wife 30 years ago—an incident he claims a blackmailer used to try and get him sacked after the World Cup last month.
In a winding statement Tuesday, Berhalter admitted to kicking his now-wife Rosalind in her legs outside a bar in 1991 during a “heated argument”—an assault he says was a...