NEW YORK : U.S. Soccer announced Matt Crocker as their new sporting director on Tuesday, tasking the former English Football Association head of development teams with supporting their Women's World Cup title defence.Crocker, the director of football operations at Premier League side Southampton, will tak
NEW YORK : U.S. Soccer announced Matt Crocker as their new sporting director on Tuesday, tasking the former English Football Association head of development teams with supporting their Women's World Cup title defence.
"Twelve of the last 13 years, the U.S. women's national team has had an unbelievable record of being the number one team," Crocker told reporters at a news conference on Tuesday."But that gap is getting closed all the time.""There's more professional leagues across Europe and the world now," said Crocker."The players are fitter and stronger because they get to train every day in a professional environment...
The team was embroiled in turmoil after the tournament when a bitter dispute broke out between former coach Gregg Berhalter, U.S. midfielder Gio Reyna and his parents. "I guess what I see from the current team is an aggressive, a forward thinking and a fearless team that went to the World Cup and did some great stuff," said Crocker, who declined to comment on individual candidates.
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