--- title: Jason Sudeikis Returns at Soccer Coach Ted Lasso: NBC Video description: And he's as ignorant as ever canonical: https://time.com/3101022/jason-sudeikis-returns-as-ted-lasso-soccer-coach/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-11T17:22:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:20.279Z og:title: Jason Sudeikis Returns as Awful American Soccer Coach Ted Lasso og:description: And he's as ignorant as ever og:url: https://time.com/3101022/jason-sudeikis-returns-as-ted-lasso-soccer-coach/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt847fc1fb399bf93a/69869f06cd6848ae56095ff5/screen-shot-2014-08-11-at-11-57-16-am.png?branch=production&width=957&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 957 og:image:height: 538 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-08-11 at 11.57.16 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jason Sudeikis Returns as Awful American Soccer Coach Ted Lasso twitter:description: And he's as ignorant as ever twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt847fc1fb399bf93a/69869f06cd6848ae56095ff5/screen-shot-2014-08-11-at-11-57-16-am.png?branch=production&width=957&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jason Sudeikis Returns as Awful American Soccer Coach Ted Lasso > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 11, 2014 5:22 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 11, 2014 5:22 PM UTC _Saturday Night Live_ alum Jason Sudeikis [has reprised a character ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRqypM7jb5Y)who we first met last summer: Ted Lasso, the incompetent American soccer coach hired to manage Tottenham Hotspur. Well, Lasso was fired because he was terrible and didn’t understand the rules of British football at all. But because the Premier League is returning to NBC this month, the network decided to revive the hilariously ignorant, disrespectful, mustachioed character. This time, though, he’s coaching a youth soccer team and showing off his newfound love of English culture. 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