The San Jose Earthquakes have appointed Luchi Gonzalez as their new head coach, the membership introduced Wednesday.
Gonzalez is presently serving as Gregg Berhalter’s assistant with the USA Males’s Nationwide Group and can take his place with the Quakes following the 2022 World Cup this winter. Till then, Alex Covelo will proceed to function interim head coach as he has finished for the reason that early-season departure of Matias Almeyda.
“Luchi has all the attributes that we sought in our subsequent head coach,” Quakes normal supervisor Chris Leitch in a membership press launch. “He has had success teaching in Main League Soccer with playoff appearances in his first two seasons and has a really sturdy observe file in youth growth.
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“His strengths and wishes align with our brief and long-term targets as a membership, and we sit up for him taking the reins after the World Cup.”
Previous to his time with the USMNT, Gonzalez loved a three-year spell as head coach of FC Dallas – main them to back-to-back MLS Cup Playoffs appearances in 2019 and 2020 – having spent six years because the membership’s academy director between 2012 and 2018.
Gonzalez was picked sixth total by the Quakes within the 2002 MLS SuperDraft, making eight appearances for the membership earlier than a profession that noticed him play in Sweden and Peru, in addition to again in the USA with the Colorado Rapids, Miami FC, and Minnesota Thunder.
“I’m actually excited for this chance with one of many league’s founding golf equipment,” Gonzalez stated. “I totally loved working with the membership’s management crew all through the interview course of and was impressed by their imaginative and prescient for the longer term, each on and off the sphere. Chris Leitch and his crew have put collectively a strong basis of gamers and I’m trying ahead to working with them.
“As excited as I’m for this chance, I’m going to stay targeted on serving to the US nationwide crew be as profitable as attainable via the FIFA World Cup and I shall be prepared to present every little thing for San Jose as soon as that journey is over.”
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