New York Metropolis FC head coach Nick Cushing confirmed he’ll stay with the membership in 2025, dispelling rumors linking him to the managerial function on the Arsenal girls’s staff.
Although Cushing rapidly emerged as a possible candidate to take over Arsenal following the departure of former supervisor Jonas Eidevall in October, the MLS coach insists there was no contact from the English membership.
“Pay attention, I have been requested twice now, as soon as final week if there’s been contact after which in regards to the story nonetheless dwelling,” he advised ESPN. “It is information to me, the story is information to me. I’ve clearly seen it on the market, however from inside myself and inside right here [at the organization], there isn’t any story.
“I simply confirmed I will likely be right here subsequent 12 months, 100%. I have been within the group for 19 years. It is gonna be my twentieth subsequent 12 months.”
Cushing first joined Metropolis Soccer Group in 2006, boasting a junior function at Manchester Metropolis Girls earlier than incomes the managerial place in 2013. He led the staff to carry the 2014 FA Girls’s League Cup and 2016 Girls’s Tremendous League title throughout his seven-year spell.
In 2020, Cushing moved away from Manchester Metropolis Girls to turn out to be the assistant coach to Ronny Deila at New York Metropolis FC. He spent two years in that place, aiding the staff in the course of the 2021 MLS Cup-winning season previous to changing Deila as interim supervisor in 2022 and everlasting coach in 2023.
Regardless of the hypothesis, his focus stays on main NYCFC to the MLS Cup as soon as once more.
“Hopefully we will take this staff far this 12 months. In the end the fact is my focus now could be on playoffs and my staff past the playoffs. My focus is how will we get this staff from seven to 4, the place I imagine we’re going to get from three to 1,” he mentioned.
“Growing the fashion and the id that we have now as a result of it is the way in which I see the sport. It’s my character, proper? How courageous we’re, how excessive we push the road, how aggressive we’re in urgent, how offensive we’re. I wish to play a courageous type of the sport. I wish to go on assault groups and be on the entrance foot. Growing that has been most likely my favourite a part of the coaching programme and the staff now.”
New York Metropolis FC concluded the 2024 MLS marketing campaign in sixth place on the Japanese Convention desk with 50 factors, and now heads into the third match of the Spherical 1 best-of-three collection towards FC Cincinnati.
The collection is at present tied 1-1, forcing Cushing to earn a victory throughout Saturday’s recreation at TQL Stadium with a view to advance to the Convention semifinals.
