"One thing with Bruce Arena - at least in my relationship with him - is that he is always as brutally honest as you can be," says Meola. "He was also the last guy to release me from a team - that was when when we were New York together - and we didn't talk for around two years after that. That was probably the first time in 20 years we hadn't spoken and then we reconnected and it's been great to get advice from him.