Oguchi Onyewu

The United States Soccer Federation appointed former defender Otyewu as vice president of sport on Wednesday, a newly created position that the governing body says is not a replacement for departed men's general manager Brian McBride. Onyewu would report to Matt Crocker, who starts as sport director on August 2, and will assist in the recruiting of a men's national team coach. Onyewu will participate in both men's and women's national teams, as well as assisting with club and league relations. Gregg Berhalter, who left on Dec. 31, is a candidate for men's national team coach after a law firm retained by the USSF found that he did not wrongfully withhold evidence of a 1992 domestic violence attack involving the woman who later became Berhalter's wife. In January, Anthony Hudson, one of Berhalter's employees, was hired as an interim coach.