The Union’s new sporting director will be Ernst Tanner, who has spent the last five years as the director of Austrian club Red Bull Salzburg’s academy. He will be in Philadelphia this week to be introduced. According to sources, he likely won’t officially start with the Union until mid-to-late September because of visa and immigration paperwork. Tanner, 51, has worked for Red Bull Salzburg as its academy director since 2012. The club has won Austria’s league title in six of the last seven years, including the last five straight, and four straight Austrian cups. They haven’t reached the UEFA Champions League group stage during that span, falling in various qualifying rounds, but they did reach the second-tier Europa League semifinals this past season. Perhaps the biggest accomplishment on Tanner’s resume is winning the UEFA Youth League in the 2016-17 season. Among the clubs Salzburg beat on the way to the title were Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain, Atlético Madrid and Barcelona. One of the team’s top scorers in the tournament, Hannes Wolf, made his senior team debut this past season and scored 12 goals in 45 games. That track record was surely a big part of Tanner’s appeal for the Union’s ownership group. The team wants to… Read full this story
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