A little more than a week after the U.S. women’s national soccer team completed the worst World Cup performance in its history, Coach Vlatko Andonovski and the U.S. Soccer Federation have parted ways, three sources close to the situation said. A formal announcement is expected Thursday.
Andonovski, in the final year of his contract, lost only five matches in regulation time over almost four years overseeing the team. But expectations around the decorated program go far beyond wins and losses, and by failing to guide the team to an Olympic gold medal two years ago and losing to Sweden in a round-of-16 match in Melbourne earlier this month, his days as head coach were numbered.