With the preliminary report from Canada Soccer’s neutral evaluation of the drone spying scandal from Paris 2024, considered one of many excessive priorities is discovering a model new head coach for the women’s employees.
Canada Soccer said in a launch on Wednesday that Bev Priestman, along with assistant coach Jasmine Mander and analyst Joey Lombardi gained’t return to the employees.
Canada Soccer said of their assertion that the search for a model new coach would begin shortly.
Priestman, who took over the employees in November 2020, had signed a contract extension in January which will take her by way of the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Brazil.
WATCH | Canada Soccer confirms Priestman’s departure from ladies’s head instructing job:
Bev Priestman is out as the head coach of Canada’s ladies’s soccer employees, following an neutral report into drone spying on the 2024 Paris Olympics. Canada Soccer says assistant coach Jasmine Mander and analyst Joseph Lombardi are moreover gone.
Whoever the model new candidate is also need to be anyone who can not solely mend custom and assemble perception, however as well as win.
Canada’s success on the Olympics is successfully documented — back-to-back bronze medals in 2012 and 2016, adopted by an historic gold in Tokyo — nonetheless success on the World Cup stage has eluded this technique. Its biggest finish consequence stays a fourth-place finish in 2003, over 20 years previously.
There’s a great deal of instructing experience every at residence and abroad, nonetheless listed below are only a few candidates who would possibly make the shortlist:
Andy Spence
The current interim head coach was thrust into the place by means of the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The 41-year-old Liverpool native, described by many as Priestman’s lead assistant, guided the employees by way of its three group-stage victories and the quarterfinal loss to Germany.
He was as soon as extra behind the bench for an October nice in opposition to the reigning world champions, Spain, which resulted in a 1-1 draw.
Prior to turning into a member of the Canadian employees in 2022, Spence coached Everton inside the Women’s Super League.
Carmelina Moscato
Participating in three World Cups as a participant for Canada and worthwhile an Olympic bronze medal as part of the London 2012 employees, the Mississauga, Ont., native launched into the instructing sphere after her retirement in 2016, instructing on the collegiate, youth nationwide {{and professional}} ranks.
She at current serves as an assistant coach with Racing Louisville FC, a spot she’s held since 2024.
In 2022, she grew to turn out to be the first foreign-born coach — and first female coach — to win a Mexican league title with Tigres of Mexico’s Liga MX.
Rhian Wilkinson
Believed to be inside the working the ultimate time when Priestman acquired the job.
Wilkinson is former Canadian nationwide employees participant (181 caps), two-time Olympic bronze medallist, youth nationwide employees coach and senior assistant coach.
At 41, she already has a protracted resume, along with serving as an assistant with England and Team Great Britain.
She moreover gained the 2022 NWSL Championship as head coach for the Portland Thorns, nonetheless resigned following an investigation into an alleged relationship with a participant (she was cleared of any wrongdoing).
Currently, she’s the head coach of the Welsh ladies’s employees, which is on a quest to qualify for its first important occasion, the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025.
Tony Gustavssson
A former assistant coach with the U.S. ladies’s nationwide employees, Gustavssson took over the Australian ladies’s program in September 2020, important them to a fourth-place finish on the Tokyo Olympics and a historic fourth-place finish on the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup which they co-hosted with New Zealand.
After a subpar Olympic advertising marketing campaign at Paris 2024, Gustavssson was relieved of his duties after the Sam Kerr-less Matildas crashed out inside the group stage.
They accomplished 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 instructing inside the WSL and NWSL, former English worldwide Casey Stoney could also be on the radar.
Hired as a result of the inaugural head coach in San Diego Wave historic previous in 2021, she guided them to a runner-up finish in 2022. Her aspect captured the NWSL defend in 2023, solely to bow out inside the playoffs.
The Wave moreover gained the 2024 NWSL Challenge Cup, nonetheless midway by way of the frequent season, after going winless of their last seven video video games, Stoney was relieved of her duties.
Previously she managed Manchester United’s ladies’s employees that earned promotion to the WSL in 2018 beneath her administration.
