{"id":1788,"date":"2024-05-14T08:06:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T08:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2024-05-14T08:06:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T08:06:23","slug":"jesse-marsch-hired-as-canadas-mens-national-soccer-team-through-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=1788","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Marsch hired as Canada\u2019s men\u2019s national soccer team through 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-3ae04ece>American Jesse Marsch was hired Monday as coach of Canada\u00e2\u0080\u0099s men\u00e2\u0080\u0099s national soccer team and signed to a contract through the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-3ae04ece>The 50-year-old takes over Canada ahead of the Copa Am\u00c3\u00a9rica, where Canada plays defending champion Argentina in the tournament opener on June 20. Marsch replaced John Herdman, who left last year to become coach of Toronto in Major League Soccer. Assistant Mauro Biello had served as interim coach.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-3ae04ece>Canada has an automatic World Cup berth as co-host along with the United States and Mexico. The Canadians reached the World Cup in 2022 for the first time since 1986 and went 0-3, losing to Belgium, Croatia and Morocco.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-3ae04ece>The Canada Soccer Association said owners of Canada\u00e2\u0080\u0099s three MLS teams \u00e2\u0080\u0094 Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver \u00e2\u0080\u0094 had made financial contributions that enabled Marsch\u00e2\u0080\u0099s hiring.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-3ae04ece>After playing for Princeton and then D.C., Chicago and Chivas USA in MLS, Marsch became a U.S. national team assistant under Bob Bradley in 2010-11, then became the first head coach of MLS\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Montreal Impact (2011-12).<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-3ae04ece>He coached the New York Red Bulls (2015-18), Red Bull Salzburg (2019-21), RB Leipzig (2021) and Leeds (2022-23).<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-3ae04ece><i>Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/i><\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-3ae04ece><i><strong>[Want great stories delivered right to your inbox?\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/i><i><strong>Create or log in to your FOX Sports account, follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily<\/strong><\/i><i><strong>.]<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Jesse Marsch was hired Monday as coach of Canada\u00e2\u0080\u0099s men\u00e2\u0080\u0099s national soccer team and signed to a contract through the 2026 World Cup. The 50-year-old takes over Canada ahead of the Copa Am\u00c3\u00a9rica, where Canada plays defending champion Argentina in the tournament opener on June 20. Marsch replaced John Herdman, who left last year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}