--- ---  # Jason Sudeikis Returns as Awful American Soccer Coach Ted Lasso 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. In fact, he’s even taken a cue from cities with places like Chinatown and Little Italy and turned his entire apartment into Teeny-Tiny England. Jason Sudeikis Returns at Soccer Coach Ted Lasso: NBC Video ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3101022/jason-sudeikis-returns-as-ted-lasso-soccer-coach/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3101022/jason-sudeikis-returns-as-ted-lasso-soccer-coach/"},"headline":"Jason Sudeikis Returns as Awful American Soccer Coach Ted Lasso","datePublished":"2014-08-11T17:22:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:20.279Z","description":"And he's as ignorant as ever","url":"https://time.com/3101022/jason-sudeikis-returns-as-ted-lasso-soccer-coach/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","NBC","Videos","Soccer","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt847fc1fb399bf93a/69869f06cd6848ae56095ff5/screen-shot-2014-08-11-at-11-57-16-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt847fc1fb399bf93a/69869f06cd6848ae56095ff5/screen-shot-2014-08-11-at-11-57-16-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-08-11 at 11.57.16 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3101022/jason-sudeikis-returns-as-ted-lasso-soccer-coach/","name":"Jason Sudeikis Returns as Awful American Soccer Coach Ted Lasso"}}]}] ```