TORONTO (AP) — John Herdman says he’ll stay as Canada’s males’s soccer coach.
The 47-year-old Briton coached Canada in its first males’s World Cup look since 1986. He led New Zealand’s girls’s crew from 2006-11 and Canada’s girls from 2011-18, profitable Olympic bronze medals in 2012 and 2016.
“Success at this stage will at all times invite alternative,” Herdman stated in an announcement on Wednesday. “I’ve obtained a number of affords in latest months, all of which I’ve turned down, together with a suggestion from New Zealand Soccer. … On the World Cup in Qatar, our males confirmed the world that they belong at that stage. I’m not going anyplace. We nonetheless have a job to do, and the target is to take this crew to the subsequent stage in 2026.”
Earl Cochrane, Canada Soccer’s common secretary, confirmed Herdman is beneath contract by the 2026 World Cup that Canada is co-hosting with the U.S. and Mexico.
“There isn’t a doubt how a lot ardour and dedication John and his teaching employees have poured into our males’s nationwide crew program, taking our males from outsiders to our first World Cup in 36 years,” Cochrane stated. “Everybody in our group is dedicated to John and his teaching employees and he’s the appropriate individual to take our nation to new heights.”
