After serving as a consultant for several weeks while awaiting immigration paperwork to be finalized, Ernst Tanner officially took over as Sporting Director of the Philadelphia Union last week.
“I’m very happy to be here in an official way now and I’m excited in all that I have seen in the development over the past couple weeks was very good,” Tanner said in his opening remarks at a press conference at Talen Energy Stadium on Wednesday afternoon.
Tanner was announced as Ernie Stewart’s successor in August after Stewart departed the Union to accept the newly created general manager position for the United States Men’s National Team.