New York Metropolis FC is making a serious change to start out its offseason, firing head coach Nick Cushing after two and a half seasons and a 2024 playoff run. NYCFC introduced the change Tuesday, simply days after falling out of the MLS Playoffs with a disappointing 2-0 loss to the rival New York Pink Bulls.
Cushing joined the group in 2020 as an assistant coach to Ronny Deila and was a part of the workforce’s MLS Cup-winning run in 2021. Cushing turned interim head coach in 2022 after Deila left midseason and was promoted to everlasting head coach forward of the 2023 season.
5 years, For The Metropolis.
Thanks, Nick 💙
The workforce made the MLS semifinals in Cushing’s interim yr, however missed the playoffs final yr after a late-season slide.
This season, NYCFC completed in sixth place with a 14W-8D-12L file. Previous to the loss to the Pink Bulls, NYCFC shocked No. 3 seed FC Cincinnati in Spherical 1, forcing a Recreation 3 for the best-of-three sequence after which taking the 0(6)-0(5) win in penalties.
Earlier than heading to New York, Cushing coached the Manchester United ladies’s squad for seven seasons. In 2016, he led the workforce to a Girls’s Tremendous League title and an FA Girls’s Cup title the identical yr.
Cushing’s firing is simply the newest head teaching change, even amongst groups that made the playoffs this season. On Monday, the Vancouver Whitecaps , regardless of advancing to Spherical 1 of the playoffs. Inter Miami FC head coach after main the workforce to a record-breaking Supporters Protect end and was changed by Javier Mascherano, a former teammate of Miami star Lionel Messi.