San Diego Wave FC president Jill Ellis spoke with the media on Tuesday, addressing the team’s decision to part ways with head coach Casey Stoney just one day earlier.
The decision, she said, was based on data and the team’s recent run of poor form. Currently, the Wave are on a seven-game winless streak and, Ellis says, “limiting our opportunities.”
“We’re an ambitious club,” Ellis told reporters on Tuesday. “We want to compete domestically and internationally. Right now, to qualify for the [Concacaf] Champions League, there’s three criteria: win the league, finish second in the league, or win the championship. Where we sit at the moment, we are limiting our opportunities.”
She also noted that it wasn’t solely based on the team’s record, but did highlight the fact that the team is 17 points out of first place over halfway through the season.
“It’s also about how it looks, how it feels, and for sure how it performs,” Ellis said. “And in sport, we don’t live in the past; it’s how we perform in the moment….
