U.S. Soccer is not going to solely be looking for a brand new U.S. ladies’s nationwide staff head coach but additionally a brand new normal supervisor of this system.
Kate Markgraf, who served as GM over the previous 4 years, will step down from her present place, the federation introduced Friday. She’s going to present help by means of the top of the month to help within the transition, the federation added.
“Kate has been an instrumental a part of Ladies’s Nationwide Group each on and off the sphere for a few years, and we’re very grateful for the tireless work she has given to the USWNT and all our Youth Nationwide Groups,” stated U.S. Soccer Sporting Director Matt Crocker. “We want her all the perfect in her future endeavors and stay up for constructing on the muse she helped set up over the previous a number of years.”
Markgraf was named as the primary Common Supervisor of the USWNT in August 2019. She took on the tasks of working with the top coach [Vlatko Andonovski] in creating, executing and monitoring technical plans for the USWNT and all U.S. youth nationwide groups.
Markgraf was inducted into the Nationwide Soccer Corridor of Fame earlier this 12 months after representing the USWNT in 201 matches. She lifted one World Cup title in 1999 and gained two Olympic Gold Medals (2004 and 2008).
“It has been an unimaginable honor to work with the gamers, coaches and workers at U.S. Soccer on the mission of holding our program on the high of the ladies’s recreation,” stated Markgraf. “I’m pleased with the muse we’ve got constructed, and much more pleased with the character and dedication demonstrated by our gamers as they symbolize america on and off the sphere. I stay up for supporting all of our applications and have each confidence that we are going to keep our requirements of excellence transferring ahead.”
U.S. Soccer additionally parted methods with USWNT head coach Vlatko Andonovski after the People’ disappointing exit from the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.