The previous 10 months have seen managerial flux like never before in Major League Soccer. Ten of the league’s 19 teams (more than half) have changed head coaches since opening day of 2013.
With Wilmer Cabrera’s hiring at Chivas USA this week and then Oscar Pareja’s arrival (as expected for some time now) at Toyota Stadium in Dallas, this jaw-dropping spell of MLS coaching change is just about done. Still to come: Colorado’s choice to replace Pareja. And the clock is ticking on that one; Major League Soccer’s draft is Thursday.
Here’s the updated list of what has happened within MLS coaching ranks since opening day of 2013:
Out during the 2013 regular season:
Chivas USA’s José Luis Sánchez (May)
San Jose Frank Yallop (June)
Columbus Crew’s Robert Warzycha (September)
Out since the end of the 2013 season (or very close to it)
FC Dallas’ Schellas Hyndman
Vancouver’s Martin Rennie
Chivas USA’s José Luis Real
Chicago’s Frank Klopas
Real Salt Lake’s Jason Kreis
Montreal’s Marco Schallibaum
Colorado’s Oscar Pareja
Replacements now in charge
Mark Watson in San Jose (promoted from interim in late October)
Gregg Berhalter at Columbus
Jason Kreis at New York City FC (begins play in MLS in 2015)
Frank Yallop at Chicago
Carl Robinson at Vancouver
Frank Klopas at Montreal
Jeff Cassar at Real Salt Lake
Wilmer Cabrera at Chivas USA
Oscar Pareja at Colorado
Jobs that remain vacant
Colorado Rapids