Brad Friedel's Thursday firing from his head coaching post at New England Revolution created a third managerial opening in the young Major League Soccer season.

FC Cincinnati's firing of Alan Koch on Tuesday and the Colorado Rapids' firing of Anthony Hudson before that were the first openings this season.

Typically, that would mean FC Cincinnati would be competing with the Revolution and Rapids for luring in top coaching talent.

FC Cincinnati's opening is atypical in the grand scheme of current and would-be job openings, though.

More:The Alan Koch era is over. Who's the next head coach for FC Cincinnati?

It wouldn't be much of a leap to suggest that FC Cincinnati's the most desirable coaching vacancy of the three current MLS job postings.

Look closer at the landscape of FC Cincinnati and what the organization is building, though. What you'll see could be one of the best jobs in the league – open or occupied – and is going to get serious attention from big-name coaches.

The club will have myriad options for a permanent replacement for Koch. They could go global-brand-name-head coach (David Moyes), make a smart pull from America's impressive lower leagues (John Wolyniec) or something in between – a domestic brand name (Jason Kreis).

And let's suppose any one of the aforementioned names (or someone else) is confronted with offers from multiple MLS clubs currently seeking coaching prowess. Or maybe they have their eyes on a job that could conceivably come open soon, or any job at all in MLS regardless of its current occupant.

The choice should be an easy one, and FC Cincinnati should win out in almost every head-to-head comparison.

There are the obvious assets you can point at to make a case for the superiority of the FC Cincinnati job: Rabid fan support and more than 20,000 season ticket holders that, so far, are indicating they'll be patient with the club during a losing stretch.

There's also financial backing. The club's growing ownership group is already producing a new stadium in the urban core and a relatively secluded training complex for molding the team.

The former is easily assessable to fans. Not every MLS club can say that about their venue.

The latter – the privacy offered by Mercy Health Training Center in Milford – is an amenity some clubs with dedicated training facilities don't have, too.

What could be overlooked and underestimated about the FC Cincinnati job – the factors that, to date, are somewhat hard to calculate – is how the existing assets could be used down the road if they're placed in the correct hands.

Think of the possibilities on the personnel side alone when you combine an in-stadium atmosphere that's been compared to a European cup final, big money, all the frills big players are accustomed to, and proper coaching.

The prospects are mouthwatering if you're an FC Cincinnati supporter.

The next head coach will more than likely christen the new stadium and win the first match there. Later, they could help introduce a star designated player to an audience of thousands at the same venue.

Indelible moments in the history of a growing MLS power are on the table. All that's required to make it part of your head coaching tenure is a signature on a dotted line.

FC Cincinnati is uncharted territory. There's no template or directions to follow – only a crumpled up blueprint from the first 11 matches of 2019, and it shouldn't be hard to avoid those pratfalls as the club grows out of its expansion phase.

This organization is a new pie, as FOX Soccer analyst Alexi Lalas told The Enquirer this week, and everyone wants a piece.

What the next head coach does with his piece of the pie could be entirely up to him, and that will be very enticing prospect.

It might be the most enticing prospect in terms of head coaching opportunity in all of MLS.