Pastora Out, Shore In; Miami FC Makes Midseason Coaching Change
The Miami FC Blues announced the hiring of a new coach on Monday. Daryl Shore will take the reigns of the Blues. He has been an assistant coach at the Chicago Fire for the last 10 years. Shore served as an assistant to five head coaches with Chicago, including Bob Bradley and Juan Carlos Osorio. He also played a critical role in the growth of the Fire’s excellent player development program.
Shore is familiar with the South Florida area. He attended South Plantation High School just 10 minutes from Lockhart Stadium. Prior to his coaching job in Chicago, he was a professional goalkeeper and also served as the head coach for the New Orleans Storm of the A-League in 1998 as well as the Lehigh Valley Steam in 1999.
The Blues released head coach Victor Pastora just one hour after a 1-1 draw at home against Puerto Rico last Saturday evening, July 17. Pastora had been with the Blues since 2006 when the club started. He served as an assistant coach from the team’s inaugural season until he was promoted to head coach for the 2010 season.
Miami currently sits in second to last place of the 12 teams in the USSF D2 Pro League with only 15 points. The team last won a game over a month ago on June 12, in a 1-0 victory over the Portland Timbers at Lockhart Stadium. Since that time Miami has gone in 0-4-2. The team is currently 2-6-9. While the Blues goal scoring has been on par with most other teams in the league with 18, Miami’s leaky defense has been a problem allowing a league high 27 goals against.
New coach Shore will take his team just up the road to play the expansion team FC Tampa Bay Rowdies this Sunday in Tampa. The Rowdies are currently 5-6-5.
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I don’t see how a coaching change will make a difference, if the front office in Miami is not changed. They have no marketing and no idea of increasing the fan base.
Traffic, the owner, should be upset on how this team is being run.
Uh Bart, you have it backwards. It’s Traffic that has been the problem, not the actual team front office in Miami. Traffic has not spent on marketing or promoting the team. You can have the best minds in marketing but if the owner of the team isn’t paying for ads, billboards, radio or TV broadcasts, giveaways and other promotions, then those things don’t happen.
The FO are all class acts and do their best with the resources at hand. They’ve been operating on next t nothing from the ownership in Brazil.
I hope the new coach provides a spark and the team makes the playoffs.
Miami Ultra:
Say hello to your co-workers at the front office today! For a market that held the highest viewership for ESPN during World Cup, it is not about throwing money at an issue, it is taking the natural interest that is already there and nurturing it.
That is indeed an FO problem, and the owners need to make some changes there as well.