The Utah Royals has fired Amy Rodriguez midway via her first season as head coach, the workforce introduced on Sunday. Utah is in final place within the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League (NWSL) per week forward of the summer time Olympics break
Newly appointed assistant coach Jimmy Coenraets will function the workforce’s interim head coach. Royals goalkeeper coach Maryse Bard-Martel was additionally fired.
Royals workforce president Michelle Hyncik, who performed with Rodriguez in highschool and employed her for the job, “will start transitioning to a brand new alternative” in a authorized function with the Blitzer Household Workplace.
Actual Salt Lake president John Kimball will oversee enterprise operations for the Royals whereas the group, which shares possession with MLS’ Actual Salt Lake, appears for a brand new Royals president.
“This enlargement season has been stuffed with classes and learnings, and we at the moment are targeted on reorganizing management efforts on and off the pitch,” Kimball stated in a press release. “We’re grateful and appreciative of Amy, Michelle and Maryse and their efforts in serving to re-introduce the Royals to Utah’s unbelievable followers and the worldwide soccer neighborhood.
“We consider ladies’s sports activities are a significant a part of Utah’s tradition. Our membership and possession group are dedicated to delivering a product our followers shall be happy with. Whereas we’ve confronted adversity this season, we’re targeted on constructing a workforce on and off the sphere that may compete on the highest ranges for years to return.”
Rodriguez was employed as the primary coach of the Royals’ new period; Utah returned to the NWSL as an enlargement workforce this season after initially folding on the finish of 2020. The job was Rodriguez’s first as a head coach after a short stint as an assistant on the College of Southern California, her alma mater.
She promised to place collectively a hard-working workforce that might combat for each consequence, however the Royals have conceded a league-worst 27 objectives as of the completion of Saturday’s NWSL video games, scoring solely seven instances in 15 matches.
Rodriguez performed for the primary iteration of the Royals from 2018-2020, close to the top of a profession that included two NWSL Championships with FC Kansas Metropolis and a 2015 World Cup title with the United States. She scored 39 objectives within the NWSL.
Coenraets joined the Royals’ employees in early June.
Utah has the youngest roster within the NWSL. The Royals are coming off arguably their greatest efficiency of the season, a scoreless draw at residence towards the Portland Thorns. Every week earlier, Utah misplaced 6-0 to the unbeaten Orlando Pleasure, which tied the NWSL report for probably the most lopsided margin of victory.
Utah travels to face Seattle Reign FC on July 7 within the workforce’s closing recreation earlier than the six-week break from the common season.