FILE–Former Filipinas head coach Alen Stajcic and Sofia Harrison of Philippines rejoice after the FIFA Girls’s World Cup match between New Zealand and Philippines on July 25, 2023 in Wellington, New Zealand. –Mathias Bergeld / BILDBYRÅN
Alen Stajcic was formally named the brand new coach of Australian males’s membership Perth Glory, two days after deciding to finish his outstanding tenure steering the Philippines to a maiden Fifa Girls’s World Cup look.
The A-League membership made the announcement on Thursday which in the end confirmed rumors earlier than the Girls’s World Cup of Stajcic being eyed to take over Perth as soon as he completes his duties dealing with the Filipinas.
An Australian media outlet had reported in June that the Glory have been eyeing Stajcic to name the pictures amid struggles on each the monetary facet and on the pitch.
A brand new period begins…
Perth Glory is proud to announce that Alen Stajcic has been appointed because the membership’s new @aleaguemen Head Coach.
Get the complete story right here: https://t.co/2k4LTRhHDa#ONEGlory pic.twitter.com/MP1CCShCKo— Perth Glory FC (@PerthGloryFC) August 3, 2023
“I consider an unimaginable alternative now exists to re-establish Glory as one of many giants of Australian soccer and that imaginative and prescient is one shared by everybody on the membership,” Stajcic stated in a press release posted on the membership’s web site.
“I take nice confidence from the groundwork which has been put in over the past 12 months to set the membership again on the trail to success and am excited to assist proceed that course of,” he added.
Stajcic opted to take a special course after guiding the Philippine girls’s facet to unprecedented heights since being appointed in late-2021.
Spectators react because the Philippines groups rejoice following the Girls’s World Cup Group A soccer match between New Zealand and the Philippines in Wellington, New Zealand, Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (AP Photograph/Andrew Cornaga)
The semifinal look on the 2022 AFC Girls’s Asian Cup allowed the Filipinas to qualify for the Girls’s World Cup, a feat no different nationwide facet of any gender of any age group has pulled off prior.
The Filipinas additionally gained the 2022 AFF Girls’s Championship, claimed bronze eventually 12 months’s Vietnam Southeast Asian Video games and climbed to forty sixth on this planet below Stajcic’s watch.
Stajcic’s pact with the Philippines ended after a 6-0 loss to Norway within the last group stage match in Auckland, New Zealand.
Throughout the Girls’s World Cup, the Filipinas claimed a 1-0 win over New Zealand on Sarina Bolden’s first-half aim.
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