Sentence examples for soccer operations from inspiring English sources

Paul McDonough was hired as vice-president of soccer operations (a nominal general manager).

Teitur Thordarson was relieved of his head coaching duties last May with the director of soccer operations Tom Soehn taking over until Rennie's arrival on Nov. 1.

COLLEGE ASSUMPTION--Announced the resignation of John Murphy, men's and women's soccer coach and director of soccer operations, to become goalkeeper coach for New England of MLS.

The Frenchman Gérard Houllier, who earlier this year was named the head of Red Bull's global soccer operations working from Salzburg, Austria, now takes the reins of all the M.L.S. club's sporting operations as well.

Major League Soccer Dietmar Beiersdorfer, a German who was recently appointed the sporting director for Red Bull soccer operations in the United States, Austria, Germany, Ghana and Brazil, is in New Jersey as the local M.L.S. team inches toward naming a new coach and sporting director.

Martino said it was important that Atlanta United already had a staff — including the technical director Carlos Bocanegra and the director of soccer operations Paul McDonough, who helped Orlando City get its team off the ground last season — to help him get up to speed on the system.

The owner – an intensely competitive character, prone to Twitter feuds and other spikes of public enthusiasm – is also methodically building a concept: a vertically integrated soccer operation, anchored by the MLS side.

JACK BELL Major League Soccer The Red Bulls, a club without a coach or sporting director, confirmed reports that Eric Soler, a Norwegian player agent who has worked with the club IK Start in his home country, was at the top of the list to run the club's soccer operation.

The North American Soccer League ceased operations in 1984, partly as a result of FIFA's decision to award the 1986 World Cup to Mexico after Colombia was unable to host the tournament.

The team in question was the New York Cosmos, the flagship team in the North American Soccer League, which ceased operations in the mid-1980s.

Fox recently announced that its soccer channel would cease operation in August, with the remaining soccer programming rolled into its new all-sports network, Fox Sports 1. Fox has steadily lost soccer rights to some major European leagues, most notably to beIN Sport, but retains rights to the UEFA Champions League.