TORONTO — New head coach Robin Fraser added to his teaching workers Friday with Toronto FC making a deal to pry unfastened two of his former assistants from the Colorado Rapids.
TORONTO — New head coach Robin Fraser added to his teaching workers Friday with Toronto FC making a deal to pry unfastened two of his former assistants from the Colorado Rapids.
To get assistant coach Neil Emblen and video coach Jase Kim on board, Toronto despatched its first-round choose within the 2026 MLS SuperDraft to the Rapids. As a part of the deal, TFC might obtain US$175,000 normally allocation cash and retain a sell-on share if the choose seems to be one of many prime three within the drafts.
“I am actually blissful that we have been in a position to get them,” stated Fraser. “I do know it comes at a value however I feel it is worthwhile … I do really feel like this undertaking wanted a contemporary form of feeling. And definitely these are those that I have been by way of quite a bit with and have an excessive amount of belief in.”
The 2 new additions be a part of incumbent goalkeeping coach Simon Eaddy, director of efficiency Cesar Meylan and efficiency analyst Peter Galindo.
TFC left Friday for Spain to proceed its pre-season preparations.
Emblen has spent the final seven years with Colorado, the place he served as each an assistant coach and “the principle teaching hyperlink to the recruiting division.”
A former defender and midfielder whose enjoying profession stretched from 1987 to 2011, Emblem had stints with Tonbridge Angels, Sittingbourne, Millwall, Wolves, Crystal Palace, Norwich Metropolis and Walsall in his native England earlier than shifting to the Southern Hemisphere to play for the New Zealand Knights and Waitakere United.
“They nonetheless chant his identify at Wolves,” stated Fraser.
“I really like his character. I really like his enthusiasm for the sport,” he added. “He is an excellent coach.”
Emblen coached Waitakere to 3 straight New Zealand league titles between 2010 and 2012. He managed New Zealand on the 2012 London Olympics earlier than serving two matches as New Zealand’s interim head coach in 2014.
Kim joined Colorado in January 2018 as a first-team video analyst after serving first as a efficiency analyst after which head efficiency analyst for the New Zealand nationwide staff. Kim was additionally a part of the New Zealand technical workers on the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Jan. 17, 2025
Neil Davidson, The Canadian Press
