U.S. Soccer plans to narrow the focus of its sporting director job as part of a slight but significant restructuring near the top of the federation.
But now, as U.S. Soccer's leaders conduct what they are calling"a global search" for Stewart's successor, they have also changed the job description. President Cindy Parlow Cone said Saturday that the new sporting director, whom they expect to hire before July's Women's World Cup, will"really focus on our national teams ... and our technical plan at the elite level."into two. They will create a new position to oversee the broader landscape.
And while that description is vague, and seems less influential than sporting director roles at clubs — where executives can sign and sell players, and actually shape the team on the field in the immediate-term — it will be more refined that it was previously.Batson said discussions about the"evolution" of the role began in Qatar, between him and Stewart. He realized, in those conversations and others, that"to run our national team programs is more than a full-time job.
,"we got validation through the review as to how other federations [around the world] are organized, as well as feedback from our team around what's working well, and where are some challenges," Batson said.He and Cone acknowledged that there will be overlap between the sporting director position and the new position — in the talent identification realm, for example. And of course, for now, both are extremely conceptual; both could continue to evolve.
"Those are very different skill sets, and those are very different types of things to be thinking about day-to-day," Batson said.
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