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Mexico has chosen Andrea Rodebaugh to tackle the position of sporting director for its nationwide groups. Getty Photographs

The Mexican Soccer Federation (FMF) has employed Andrea Rodebaugh as the brand new sporting director for its girls’s nationwide groups, president Yon de Luisa introduced on Sunday at a press convention in Los Angeles.

The previous El Tri Femenil midfielder joins the FMF after beforehand teaching Membership Tijuana in Liga MX Femenil and Mexico’s U20 girls’s nationwide crew. Most not too long ago, Rodebaugh has additionally completed work with FIFA as a girls’s soccer advisor.

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“Andrea arrives so as to add and strengthen the ladies’s groups,” De Luisa mentioned. “Together with her professionalism and dedication, Andrea has come to realize the objective that we have all set for ourselves, which is to be within the high eight on the earth. Andrea’s management shall be important.”

Rodebaugh shall be tasked with reviving a girls’s nationwide crew challenge that has gone by a turbulent 2022.

Regardless of a development in home expertise and the rise of the Liga MX Femenil (Mexico’s high flight for girls’s soccer), the ladies’s nationwide crew didn’t qualify for the 2023 World Cup and 2024 Olympics in Paris after ending with out a win in July’s CONCACAF W Championship — finally resulting in the firing of supervisor Monica Vergara in August.

Coupled with the boys’s U20 squad failing to qualify for the 2023 U20 World Cup and Paris 2024, the FMF decided in mid-July to dismiss basic sporting director Gerardo Torrado, sporting director of nationwide groups Ignacio Hierro, and U20 coach Luis Perez. Later that month, a number of coaches from the ladies’s U20 squad have been additionally fired after an inner investigation “discovered of an absence of management and inappropriate behaviors.”

Via a restructuring of the FMF, Jaime Ordiales has since stepped in as a sporting director for less than the boys’s nationwide groups, and on the ladies’s aspect, Rodebaugh will now be main the efforts.

“It’s an honor to contribute to the nationwide groups, it is an enormous problem and I am conscious that it requires dedication and loads of self-discipline,” Rodebaugh mentioned in her introductory press convention.

“We’ve got a era of very proficient gamers, prepared to offer their greatest on the sector. I’ll focus all my power and focus to enhance their performances to allow them to attain their highest degree.”

Later, De Luisa revealed that coach Pablo Lopez, who not too long ago gained the U20 Girls’s World Cup with Spain, is in “very superior” talks with the FMF to turn out to be the subsequent supervisor of Mexico’s senior girls’s crew.

Presently in the midst of a visit to southern California, the Mexico girls misplaced 1-0 to New Zealand throughout a pleasant on Friday at Carson’s Dignity Well being Sports activities Park. On Monday, they will then face the NWSL’s Angel Metropolis FC in a rustic vs. membership pleasant at Los Angeles’ Banc of California Stadium.

Miguel Angel Gamero and Cristian Flores are the present interim coaches for the senior girls’s crew.

Supply: espn.co.uk