1. Gary Smith will coach Nashville SC when it moves from the USL Championship to MLS in 2020. Smith, who moved to Nashvillefor its first year in the USL in 2018, was the head coach of the Colorado Rapids in 2010 when they won MLS Cup. Prior to joining the Rapids, he worked at clubs in his native England, including Arsenaland Watford, and after leaving Colorado was the head coach of Stevenage FC of English League One and the NASL’s Atlanta Silverbacks.

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