He’s here! New US women’s national team head coach Vlatko Andonovski gave his first official press conference in New York today, joined on stage by USWNT GM Kate Markgraf and USSF president Carlos Cordeiro. The presser was mostly Markgraf and Andonovski going through the vetting process and their philosophies on how they’ll run the WNT, but Cordeiro was also asked about the federation’s legal dispute with the WNT over equal pay.
The interest parts were definitely coming from Markgraf and Andonvoski though, as they walked everyone through the hiring process. Markgraf said that she already had a list of Jill Ellis replacements this summer before she officially got the GM job, and that once she was on the search, she networked extensively as part of her due diligence.