CHICAGO (AP) — Former defender Oguchi Onyewu was employed Wednesday by the U.S. Soccer Federation as vice chairman of sporting, a newly created position the governing physique mentioned just isn't a alternative for departed males’s basic supervisor Brian McBride.

The USSF mentioned Onyewu will report back to Matt Crocker, who begins as sporting director on Aug. 2, and can help within the hiring of a males’s nationwide staff coach. Onyewu will work with males’s and ladies’s nationwide groups in any respect ranges and can assist handle relationships with golf equipment and leagues.

Gregg Berhalter, whose contract expired Dec. 31, stays a candidate to remain on as males’s nationwide staff coach after a legislation agency employed by the us concluded he didn't improperly withhold info of a 1992 home violence incident involving the girl who later grew to become Berhalter’s spouse. Anthony Hudson, one in every of Berhalter’s assistants, was employed as interim coach in January.

The USSF mentioned Crocker will resolve whether or not McBride’s place can be crammed.

Onyewu, a 40-year-old from Olney, Maryland, had six objectives in 69 appearances for the U.S. from 2004-14, beginning three matches on the 2006 World Cup and two extra in 2010. He was voted the us’s male participant of the yr in 2006.

Onyewu was elected to the us board of administrators in 2021 and give up previously week to take the employees place.

His membership profession spanned 2002-17 and included time with Standard Liège (2004-09) and restricted appearances with Newcastle (2007), Sporting Lisbon (2011-13), Sheffield Wednesday (2014) and Charlton (2014-15). He final performed with Philadelphia in 2017.

He transferred to AC Milan forward of the 2009-10 season however performed in only one match, 31 minutes in opposition to Zurich within the Champions League group stage on Sept. 30, 2009. He ruptured the patellar tendon in his left knee throughout a World Cup qualifier in opposition to Costa Rica that Oct. 14.

In November 2010, Onyewu made headlines when he obtained right into a battle with star Zlatan Ibrahimovic throughout a Milan coaching session.

After retiring as a participant, Onyewu grew to become Orlando City B’s sporting director in 2018 and secretary basic of Belgium’s Royal Excelsior Virton in 2020. He additionally has broadcast for CBS.

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