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The Houston Sprint have employed Angela Hucles Mangano as president of girls’s soccer for the membership and chief soccer officer for the Sprint.
Hucles Mangano mutually parted methods with Angel Metropolis final week after beforehand serving because the Los Angeles membership’s basic supervisor.
“I’m ecstatic for this new alternative with the Houston Sprint and fully energized for this venture forward of us,” Hucles Mangano mentioned in a press release. “With the ability to convey within the experiences I’ve had on this sport up to now and supply the kind of stability and consistency to the membership that served my groups properly as a participant and government, can be core elements to the high-performance development of the group. I’m excited for this transformation and to work with key members of management, the workers, the gamers, the followers and neighborhood of Houston.”
Houston has been looking for each a basic supervisor and a head coach for months after a disastrous season on and off the sphere.
Alex Singer was fired as Sprint basic supervisor in late July for what membership president Jess O’Neill mentioned on the time was attributable to poor outcomes on the sphere. The Sprint completed final within the 14-tream NWSL this season.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Angela and her household to Houston. As a trailblazer who has devoted her life to advancing the game throughout all ranges, Angela offered a powerful plan for the way forward for the Houston Sprint that aligns with our imaginative and prescient for sustained success on-and-off the pitch,” Houston Sprint majority proprietor Ted Segal mentioned in a press release. “We sit up for the following chapter with Angela main the mission to raise the Sprint right into a constant contender within the NWSL.”
Houston spent half the season underneath interim management after former head coach Fran Alonso went absent from the membership in late June. The Sprint initially described Alonso’s absence as an “sickness” earlier than calling it a private depart. He was fired in September, nearly precisely 12 weeks after his disappearance from the sidelines, for failure to return from depart.
Former Houston Dynamo participant and Orlando Pleasure basic supervisor Erik Ustruck has been working as an advisor – successfully an interim basic supervisor – since August. O’Neill initially focused early October to rent a brand new GM, however the course of dragged on earlier than restarting completely in November, a number of sources instructed The Equalizer on the time. That left the Sprint with a brief timeline to rent each a GM and a head coach. Hucles Mangano finally bought a unique title than GM however with some comparable obligations.
Hucles Mangano would be the second GM within the historical past of the Sprint, a crew that started taking part in within the NWSL in 2014 however largely shared assets and staffing with the MLS’ Dynamo for years.
She received two Olympic gold medals and appeared in two World Cups with the USA girls’s nationwide crew. She performed for the Boston Breakers in each WUSA (2001-2003) and WPS (2009).
