Real Salt Lake announced on Wednesday that the club would be retaining Head Coach Jeff Cassar for the 2017 season and he joined the Bill Riley Show on ESPN 700 following the announcement.
“I feel very blessed and honored to have this opportunity. I’m really excited about the things that we’re doing for the club for 2017 and beyond,” Cassar said in a wide-ranging interview. “It’s very humbling. It’s given me a renewed energy – myself and the staff – to continue to prepare the team for the season.”
Cassar’s club made the playoffs in two of his first three seasons, with RSL undertaking the third-greatest improvement in the league from 2015 to 2016.