With the preliminary report from Canada Soccer’s impartial assessment of the drone spying scandal from Paris 2024, one of many high priorities is discovering a brand new head coach for the ladies’s staff.
Canada Soccer stated in a launch on Wednesday that Bev Priestman, together with assistant coach Jasmine Mander and analyst Joey Lombardi won’t return to the staff.
Canada Soccer stated of their assertion that the seek for a brand new coach would start shortly.
Priestman, who took over the staff in November 2020, had signed a contract extension in January that may take her by means of the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Brazil.
WATCH | Canada Soccer confirms Priestman’s departure from girls’s head teaching job:
Bev Priestman is out as the pinnacle coach of Canada’s girls’s soccer staff, following an impartial report into drone spying on the 2024 Paris Olympics. Canada Soccer says assistant coach Jasmine Mander and analyst Joseph Lombardi are additionally gone.
Whoever the brand new candidate could also be have to be somebody who cannot solely mend tradition and construct belief, but in addition win.
Canada’s success on the Olympics is effectively documented — back-to-back bronze medals in 2012 and 2016, adopted by an historic gold in Tokyo — however success on the World Cup stage has eluded this system. Its greatest end result stays a fourth-place end in 2003, over 20 years in the past.
There’s loads of teaching expertise each at residence and overseas, however listed here are just a few candidates who might make the shortlist:
Andy Spence
The present interim head coach was thrust into the place through the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The 41-year-old Liverpool native, described by many as Priestman’s lead assistant, guided the staff by means of its three group-stage victories and the quarterfinal loss to Germany.
He was once more behind the bench for an October pleasant in opposition to the reigning world champions, Spain, which resulted in a 1-1 draw.
Prior to becoming a member of the Canadian staff in 2022, Spence coached Everton within the Women’s Super League.
Carmelina Moscato
Participating in three World Cups as a participant for Canada and profitable an Olympic bronze medal as a part of the London 2012 staff, the Mississauga, Ont., native launched into the teaching sphere after her retirement in 2016, teaching on the collegiate, youth nationwide {and professional} ranks.
She at present serves as an assistant coach with Racing Louisville FC, a place she’s held since 2024.
In 2022, she grew to become the primary foreign-born coach — and first feminine coach — to win a Mexican league title with Tigres of Mexico’s Liga MX.
Rhian Wilkinson
Believed to be within the operating the final time when Priestman acquired the job.
Wilkinson is former Canadian nationwide staff participant (181 caps), two-time Olympic bronze medallist, youth nationwide staff coach and senior assistant coach.
At 41, she already has a prolonged resume, together with serving as an assistant with England and Team Great Britain.
She additionally gained the 2022 NWSL Championship as head coach for the Portland Thorns, however resigned following an investigation into an alleged relationship with a participant (she was cleared of any wrongdoing).
Currently, she’s the pinnacle coach of the Welsh girls’s staff, which is on a quest to qualify for its first main event, the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025.
Tony Gustavssson
After a subpar Olympic marketing campaign at Paris 2024, Gustavssson was relieved of his duties after the Sam Kerr-less Matildas crashed out within the group stage.
They completed third in Group B, the so-called Group of Death, behind the eventual gold medallists United States and bronze medallists Germany.
Casey Stoney
With over 100 caps as a participant and stints teaching within the WSL and NWSL, former English worldwide Casey Stoney may be on the radar.
The Wave additionally gained the 2024 NWSL Challenge Cup, however halfway by means of the common season, after going winless of their final seven video games, Stoney was relieved of her duties.
Previously she managed Manchester United’s girls’s staff that earned promotion to the WSL in 2018 beneath her management.
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