Herdman joins the Toronto MLS team after more than a decade at Canada Soccer, leading the national men’s team to its first FIFA World Cup appearance in 1986
As he was formally introduced as Toronto FC’s new head coach in a news conference on Tuesday, John Herdman said the opportunity “hit the bull’s-eye.”because he wants to inspire a new group, and to work in a club setting, hands-on with players every day. As for leaving his position as head coach of Canada’s men’s soccer team, the 48-year-old said he felt in his gut it was time to go.
“You feel it in your gut, you feel in your heart, that there’s a moment, it’s time to step off and go on and fulfill another dream,” Herdman said. “And that dream was to be on the grass with players day in, day out, developing people. We haven’t had that opportunity, probably since we were in our residences with the women’s national team.”
“In his career, he’s taken teams that have been fractured, and he has built them into winners,” Manning said of Herdman. “Jason and I looked at each other, and I’m not sure who said it first … we just said ‘That’s our guy.’ ” “I made a mission in my mind, and in the country’s mind, to qualify for Qatar 2022 which, back in 2018, was unthinkable to a lot of people,” Herdman said. “When we hit that target as a group, there’s something being achieved here, that you’ve fulfilled something for the country, you’ve laid a foundation for its future success. I think walking away gives an opportunity for someone else to come in and lift this team to another level.
Herdman will stay on at Canada Soccer through the end of September, so he won’t begin his new job with Toronto FC until Oct. 1. It’s already late in the MLS season, so that means he will only coach a few matches. TFC sits in last place in the MLS Eastern Conference standings, and only has eight matches left to play.
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