BIRMINGHAM, England \u2014 West Bromwich Albion hired former Manchester United assistant Eric Ramsay as head coach on Sunday after he guided Minnesota United to the semifinals of the MLS playoffs.<\/p>\n
Minnesota was Ramsay\u2019s first head coaching job after working alongside Erik ten Hag at Man United.<\/p>\n
West Brom is currently 18th in England’s second-tier Championship.<\/p>\n
The announcement was made after West Brom beat Swansea in a penalty shootout to reach the fourth round of the FA Cup.<\/p>\n
James Morrison was in charge of West Brom for the FA Cup game following the dismissal of Ryan Mason on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Minnesota United chief soccer officer and sporting director Khaled El-Ahmad said \u201cEric was instrumental in shaping a team that reflects the values of our club and our community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Minnesota said it is \u201ccurrently in the final stages of selecting its next head coach\u201d and will have more to share in the coming days.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re incredibly grateful for our time in Minnesota,\u201d said Ramsay, who will bring assistant Dennis Lawrence with him. \u201cWe\u2019ve made friends for life, experienced a part of the world we may never otherwise have seen, and shared something truly special as a family. Two seasons have flown by, but I\u2019ll look back with nothing but fond memories and real pride in what we achieved together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIRMINGHAM, England \u2014 West Bromwich Albion hired former Manchester United assistant Eric Ramsay as head coach on Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-403775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}