U.S. men’s soccer team manager Gregg Berhalter revealed on Tuesday that he committed an incident of domestic violence against his future wife in 1991, when he was 18 years old.
“During the World Cup, an individual contacted U.S. Soccer, saying that they had information about me that would ‘take me down’ — an apparent effort to leverage something very personal from long ago to bring about the end of my relationship with U.S. Soccer,” Berhalter said in a statement. “This is a difficult step to take, but my wife, Rosalind, and I want to clearly and directly share the truth. This is a story that belongs to us, but hopefully there are lessons from our relationship that can be valuable to others.”
He said that during his freshman year of college, he met Rosalind for the first time, and four months later they got in an argument at a bar and he kicked her in the legs.
