ATTENTION friends, followers, and footballers alike! A new USWNT coach has been found! It was only but two weeks ago when I wrote about how the search process was getting into full swing, and now BOOM; new coach. Pia has made her way back to Sweden, and will be missed every single match. However, regardless of having huge shoes to fill, without further or do, I introduce to you the new coach of the USWNt, Tom Sermanni.
picture compliments of ESPN FC
The head coach of the Australian women's national team was a fine choice by Gulati (USA Soccer President). His resume stacks up to be incredibly similar to that of who he is replacing; Pia herself. He was intriduced and spoke at a press conference on Wednesday where he spoke of his many long years of involvement with women's soccer and his excitment to be a part of this team. His extensive international experience is what more then likely put the odds in his favor of recieving the honorable position. Australia had never won a game at the World Cup finals until Sermanni took position as head coach where they made their way to quarterfinal games multiple times. He has extensive amounts of experience working with younger players, which is crucial since there is young talent on the US team already including Alex Morgan and Sydney Leroux to name a few. This is also very important because there are many vetrans on the team who are begining to get rather close to retirement. For instance by the 2015 World Cup Abby Wambach will be 35, heather Mitts 37, Shannon Boxx 38, Christie Rampone 40, and even Hope Solo 33 (*tear*) are all getting up there in age. Although they may still be a round for a few more years, the time to start building young players who will be able to jump into those positions is NOW! This is crucial to help keep the USA reputation of GREAT soccer alive. Tom is the perfect person to take on that challenge because of his experience working with young players and helping them improve up to the big girls stage. He will be able to work actively with those younger girls in the U-20 teams and down to help prep for the big guns. But of coarse with great power comes great responsibilty and Sermanni has a HUGE resposibilty and reputation to live up to and will be expected to compete with what Pia brought to the USWNT for so many years. Overall the reaction is that Sermanni is going to do great things with this US team and all the spot lights will be on him. I am presonaly realy excited to see what he can do in this upcoming season when he starts coaching in January! KEEP THE GREATNESS ALIVE SERMANNI! Don't let us soccer lovers down.
The US Women are very excited to have Tom as their new coach, which is a great foot to begin on!
Sermanni's coaching style is very similar to that of Pia's coaching style.
He has the ability to work with youth to help shape young players into stars.
Below is the press conference with Tom when he was introduced as the new USWNT coach. WATCH IT!
Love the business. Love the Game. Love the USWNT. Love Tom like you would love Pia ( in time).
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