John Herdman has been put in charge of Canada Soccer men’s program, replacing Octavio Zambrano after just 10 months.
Kenneth Heiner-Møller will take over as Women’s National Team Head Coach after serving under Herdman since 2015. Heiner-Møller was Denmark’s coach from 2006 to 2013 and led them to qualification for the 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Bev Priestman is the new WNT assistant and also responsible for the U-15 to U-23 female programmes.
Herdman shifts from his position as head coach of the Canada women’s national team, which he has led since August 2011.
In his new role, Herdman will be responsible for all of the Canada men’s national teams from the U-14 to the senior squad. As he did with the Canadian women’s program, Herdman is expected to align the age-groups and – with key stakeholders – standardize consistent tactical approaches, while refining youth programming.
With Canada WNT, Herdman coached 108 games of which 62 were won, guiding the side to the 2015 World Cup quarter-finals, bronze medal finishes in the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, a gold medal at the 2011 Pan American Games and runner-up spots in the 2012 and 2016 editions of the CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship.
England-born Herdman was previously head coach of the New Zealand women’s national team from 2006-11.
Sincy and Labbe seemed to be blindsided by this, as evidenced by their respective tweets.