During the Continental Clasico earlier this month, U.S. Soccer president Cindy Parlow Cone announced that the search for a new sporting director would be coming to an end soon. The wait seems to be almost over as The Atheltic has reported that U.S. Soccer will be hiring Southampton director of football operations Matt Crocker. It was announced in December that Crocker would be leaving the club at the end of the 2022-23 season and that would line up with him arriving ahead of the Nations League semifinals and Gold Cup during a busy summer.
Crocker was also involved with interviewing potential United States managerial candidate Jesse Marsch for Southampton’s opening during the winter. While Marsch did remove himself from consideration for the role, the U.S. sporting director and usmnt manager work closely together, which could boost Marsch’s case for the national team role.
U.S. Soccer has been without a sporting director since February when Earnie Stewart joined PSV as their director of football but ahead of these critical summer tournaments, someone needs to fill the role so that the search for a head coach can take place. The sporting director will be in charge of overseeing the men’s, women’s and youth…
