Two-time Ladies’s World Cup-winning coach Jill Ellis took a full-time job with FIFA as its chief soccer officer on December 3.
Ellis will proceed to work alongside Arsène Wenger, FIFA chief of world soccer improvement, in a partnership they began in 2021 when she led the governing physique’s technical advisory group for ladies’s soccer.
Ellis led the USA to back-to-back world titles in 2015 and 2019. She and former Arsenal coach Wenger promoted FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s marketing campaign to double the variety of World Cups by taking part in them each two years as an alternative of 4. That venture was resisted by European and South American soccer officers and shortly dropped.
“The creation of the chief soccer officer place underscores FIFA’s dedication to fostering a various, inclusive and accessible world soccer group, making certain that soccer stays a sport for all,” the governing physique mentioned.
Ellis has been president of the San Diego Wave within the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League and her departure was introduced on December 3.
“Below Jill’s management, the Wave set a regular of excellence as an growth membership within the NWSL,” membership proprietor Lauren Leichtman mentioned in an announcement.
