is ready to rent Jonas Eidevall as its new head coach on a three-year contract, sources briefed on the deal inform .
The previous Arsenal head coach has been out of labor since whereas the Wave has been with out a everlasting head coach since . Paul Buckle and have been in interim cost since. An official announcement of Eidevall’s appointment is predicted within the coming days.
Different golf equipment and nationwide groups have been thinking about Eidevall’s companies however the imaginative and prescient of the brand new possession in addition to the chance for progress on the Wave, who persistently led the league in attendance in 2024, appealed to Eidevall. The Wave’s intention to rent Eidevall was .
In October the after former principal proprietor Ron Burkle agreed to promote the membership at a complete valuation of $120 million (£96m), a file sale for an NWSL membership.
regardless of signing a three-year contract with the membership in October 2023.
His remaining sport was the 2-1 residence defeat by Chelsea, the place his aspect was booed by the Emirates Stadium crowd after going two objectives down within the sixteenth minute.
Eidevall joined Arsenal in 2021, changing Joe Montemurro. The 41-year-old gained the in 2023 and 2024 however was unable to dislodge Chelsea as the highest group in England, with the west London aspect profitable the title in every of his three seasons in cost.
Arsenal completed third within the final two Ladies’s Tremendous League campaigns, after ending second in Eidevall’s first season on the helm, and reached the semi-finals of the in 2022-23.
The Wave completed the 2024 season tenth within the NWSL standings, failing to qualify for the playoffs, and noticed Wave and U.S. girls’s nationwide group icon Alex Morgan retire.
The membership’s president Jill Ellis, the previous United States head coach, left her position in December to turn into chief soccer officer at . Ellis, 58, had been Wave’s president because the membership joined the NWSL in 2021.
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