Holy hell, what is in the water at Wizards HQ? They're making more news this week than they probably have in the last year combined.
And while most of the news has been positive -- signing their first home grown player, for instance -- things took a ugly turn when it was revealed that coach Peter Vermes was arrested on suspicion of DUI.
Vermes, who has helmed the club since last year, was picked up in
Gardner on August 24 just after midnight. He was released later in the
morning after posting a $750 cash bond. Who says there's no money in American soccer?
The Wizards won't comment on the coach's
alleged drunken spin through the town southwest of Olathe, but the arrest
is definitely out of character for the 43-year-old father of two.
Vermes, who played for the 1990 US World Cup squad, is known for
speaking like a military spokesman, in well-calculated sound bites rather than drunken buffoonery.
Or any kind of buffoonery, for that matter.
The mystery is where
the coach, who still appears in game shape and ready to storm the
pitch despite having been retired since 2002, was driving from when the
officer nabbed him. In his mug shot, he appears to be sporting an
athletic shirt. Is there some kind of secret boozy gym in the Kansas
suburbs? Or maybe he was drinking because he heard that the Wizards' Kei Kamara had made the list of UK magazine Sport's list of worst blown scoring chances of all time.
Vermes has a Nov. 9 court date.
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The article is correct that Peter usually conducts himself as a well planned,wellcalculated professional. If you know him like I do he will overcome this adversity and come out stronger than before. He cares about Kids in soccer, he is a role model and if this happened I know he will never allow it to happen again. We all fall down but few get back up. Peter will get up and be the role model I know him to be.
Guy Hulen
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