Former U.S. interim coach Dave Sarachan has been hired as coach of Puerto Rico’s soccer team.
The 66-year-old Sarachan will lead Puerto Rico in qualifying for the 2022 World Cup, the Puerto Rican Football Federation said Wednesday.
Puerto Rico, which competes separately from the United States, is in Group F of the pandemic-delayed first round of the North and Central American and Caribbean region. It opens March 24 at St. Kitts and Nevis, then hosts Trinidad and Tobago four days later.
The group also includes Bahamas and Guyana, and the group winner opens the final round at home against the U.