It’s official: Real Salt Lake has announced the hiring of interim head coach Pablo Mastroeni into the permanent role.
It’s a move that comes as no real surprise, with news coming from Taylor Twellman on Saturday that Mastroeni had secured the position “in principle.”
This is not Mastroeni’s first head coach gig — he was previously coach of Colorado Rapids, the club where he played 225 regular season MLS matches. He served as coach from 2014 to 2017, when he was fired by the club. In 2020, he joined Houston Dynamo as an assistant coach, then in 2021, he joined Real Salt Lake as an assistant to former RSL coach Freddy Juarez.