After the U.S. women’s national team suffered their earliest exit ever from the World Cup, Vlatko Andonovski is out as the team’s head coach, according to Nancy Armour at USA Today.
Andonovski was hired in late 2019 to succeed Jill Ellis, who had guided the USWNT to back-to-back World Cup championships in 2015 and 2019. Under Andonovski – who previously had only coached at the club level before taking over the top job in U.S. women’s soccer – the Americans finished third at the 2021 Olympics and were eliminated in the Round of 16 at the 2023 World Cup, falling in a grueling penalty shootout against Sweden. In the previous eight World Cups, the U.S. had never finished short of the semifinals.
