Wilfried Nancy Crew HC 2024 Season Outlook for defending MLS Champions 1 11 2024.mp3

Columbus Crew are in the team’s first week of preseason training camp in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

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Wilfried Nancy joined the Crew on Dec. 6, 2022 as the eighth full-time head coach in Crew history, following Timo Liekoski (1995-96), Tom Fitzgerald (1996-01), Greg Andrulis (2001-05), Sigi Schmid (2005-08), Robert Warzycha (2008-13), Gregg Berhalter (2013-18), and Caleb Porter (2019-22).

Nancy was announced as the Columbus Crew head coach on 6 December 2022, after the Crew were required to compensate Montréal since Nancy was still under contract. In his first season as coach, the Crew finished third in the regular season, playing what observers described as an attractive style of football. In the postseason, Columbus would overcome their archrivals FC Cincinnati in the conference finals, then outlast defending champions Los Angeles FC in the final. Nancy became the first Black coach to win MLS Cup.

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