{"id":433904,"date":"2023-04-23T23:20:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T03:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433904"},"modified":"2023-04-23T22:24:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T02:24:58","slug":"matt-crocker-will-be-the-new-u-s-soccer-director","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/matt-crocker-will-be-the-new-u-s-soccer-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Crocker will be the new U.S. Soccer director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Crocker, Southampton&#8217;s director of football activity, will become the new sporting director of the USSF.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">? BREAKING: Southampton director of football operations, Matt Crocker, is set to be named the U.S. Soccer Federation\u2019s sporting director.<\/p>\n<p>[?: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticSCCR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TheAthleticSCCR<\/a>] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8W8iFxe6zy\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/8W8iFxe6zy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 USMNT Otaku ?? (@USMNTOtaku) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USMNTOtaku\/status\/1650216024069881857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He will replace Earnie Stewart, who departs from the U.S. Soccer Federation in February to become the director of football at PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>After securing Crocker for the open director position, the USA Soccer Federation can now focus on finding a permanent head coach for the men&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p>Matt has been director of football operations in the Saints since early 2020, but the Premier League&#8217;s club reported that Crocker would leave after the end of the season. Southampton is currently in the last place in the league, and the chances of being relegated to the Championship are very high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Crocker, Southampton&#8217;s director of football activity, will become the new sporting director of the USSF. ? BREAKING: Southampton director of football operations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":433905,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[18998,18997],"acf":{"announce":"The Southampton chief is expected to be the new sporting director.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433904"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433904"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}