Landon Donovan Reportedly Interviews for Steady Salt Lake Head Coaching Vacancy

Dilapidated United States soccer star Landon Donovan has been interviewed to change into head coach of Steady Salt Lake of Major League Soccer, primarily based entirely totally on Sam Stejskal of The Athletic. 

The lengthy-time USMNT mainstay is for the time being the manager and executive vice president of soccer operations for the San Diego Staunch within the USL Championship. He’s 11-8-8 since he began coaching in November 2019 and has also labored with Lincoln City FC and the MLS Homegrown Game. 

Steady Salt Lake has handiest had two elephantine-time head coaches since March 2017. Daryl Shore (1-1) coached two video games on an intervening time basis to shut out the 2017 season and became changed by Mike Petke (37-39-15) the next 300 and sixty five days. Freddy Juarez (18-14-23) took over on an intervening time basis in August 2019 and had the intervening time fee removed in December of that 300 and sixty five days. 

Pablo Mastroeni has been RSL’s intervening time coach since August 27, 2021. He’s 1-2-0 since turning into manager. 

Despite making the quarterfinals of the MLS playoffs in 2018 and 2019, RSL has yet to get rid of a league title. Donovan is now an possibility to relief it fabricate so. 

Per Stejskal:

“Donovan is one in all a noteworthy quite lots of of candidates the club has spoken to within the outlet levels of its search, which began after typical head coach Freddy Juarez left Salt Lake to change into an assistant with the Seattle Sounders on Aug. 27. Sources said the club has also spoken with legendary club figure Jason Kreis, who coached RSL from 2007-2013 and is for the time being an assistant at Inter Miami, and Atlanta United assistant Grab Valentino, who earned frequent reward for the work he did as intervening time head coach of the 5 Stripes earlier this 300 and sixty five days.

“Sources indicated that RSL salvage no longer yet progressed to its final spherical of interviews. The club is for the time being being led on an intervening time basis by Pablo Mastroeni, who became elevated from his feature as assistant coach after Juarez left for Seattle. Mastroeni is 1-2-0 as manager heading into RSL’s match at San Jose on Wednesday night.”

The Athletic renowned the club continues to canvass for new coaches and has “a tight quantity” of work left forward of it extends an provide to any candidate. 

Donovan, 39, looks very worthy within the mix, nonetheless it absolutely’ll be some time forward of followers learn if he’s certainly the club’s quite lots of to lead the team into the future. If he’s, RSL will add somebody who has appeared in 157 global suits with 57 targets to their group.