US Soccer loses sporting director Earnie Stewart as coaching search continues

  • Earnie Stewart leaving US Soccer as a part of shakeup
  • Head coach Berhalter’s contract expired on 31 December
  • Crew’s GM Brian McBride departed earlier this week

US Soccer Federation sporting director Earnie Stewart is leaving to affix PSV Eindhoven following the departure of American basic supervisor Brian McBride, a administration shakeup that leaves males’s coach Gregg Berhalter in uncertainty.

Berhalter and McBride have been employed by Stewart, and the coach’s contract expired on 31 December. Three days later, the USSF introduced Berhalter was underneath investigation for a 1991 home violence incident. Anthony Hudson was then appointed interim coach.

USSF president Cindy Parlow Cone stated Berhalter remained a contender to remain on for the subsequent World Cup cycle.

Stewart will stick with the USSF by way of 15 February and the governing physique employed the Sportsology Group to seek for his alternative, who will then supervise the coach search. Hudson will stay interim coach for an undetermined interval and Sportsology will analyze coach candidates.

Cone stated she envisioned a brand new sporting director being employed by the Girls’s World Cup in July and a coach by late summer time. Cone wasn’t positive whether or not McBride might be changed.

Stewart had been given a contract extension by the USSF, and Cone stated he's being launched from his contract.

Stewart introduced McBride’s departure to the USSF board final week. The USSF stated Thursday that McBride determined to depart even earlier than the World Cup, which began in November.

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