Jordan Allen, a retired Real Salt Lake player and a former coach in the University of Virginia’s soccer program, has come home. Allen, 26, has been named Real Salt Lake’s U-17 head coach.
Allen was long one of Real Salt Lake’s brightest academy figures, and he was generally regarded as a player that had an incredibly bright future. He played consistently for his first two seasons, but after a knee injury, he retired in 2019. He was just 24-years-old.
Since, Allen has spent time as an undergraduate assistant coach at UVA, where he also attended university.