{"id":64683,"date":"2013-04-09T14:24:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T18:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=64683"},"modified":"2013-04-09T14:24:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T18:24:14","slug":"dartmouth-soccer-coach-jeff-cook-89-departs-for-mls-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/04\/09\/dartmouth-soccer-coach-jeff-cook-89-departs-for-mls-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Dartmouth soccer coach Jeff Cook ’89 departs for MLS position"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Hampshire and Philadelphia media take note as Jeff Cook ’89 steps down as head coach of Dartmouth men\u2019s soccer to accept a position with the Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer.<\/p>\n

Cook served as the Big Green\u2019s head coach for 12 years and posted an overall record of 106-74-31 while leading his squad to five Ivy League titles and seven NCAA Tournament appearances.<\/p>\n

“It’s a strange day,” Cook tells the Valley News<\/em>. “I’m not unhappy with any aspect of my job at Dartmouth and I don’t have any doubts about our success in coming years. It’s going to be very difficult and very emotional to leave Hanover and Dartmouth.”<\/p>\n

Cook will be director of recruitment for the club’s youth academy. Cook’s hiring, as reported by The Goalkeeper <\/a><\/strong>blog at Philly.com, is part of a larger effort by the Union to strengthen its feeder program by joining the U.S. Soccer Development Academy.<\/p>\n

“Players who become part of the Union\u2019s academy structure will not have to pay anything to participate,” writes blogger Jonathan Tannenwald. “This is a big deal, for fairly obvious reasons.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeff Cook ’89 will be director of recruitment for the youth academy of the Philadelphia Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"","_header-color":"","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"","override_related_with_tag":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64684,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64683\/revisions\/64684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}