WASHINGTON (AP) — Hernán Losada was hired Monday as coach of Major League Soccer’s D.C. United.
Losada had been manager of Belgium’s Beerschot since the middle of the 2018-19 season.
Ben Olson was D.C. United’s coach from August 2010 until he was fired Nov. 8 and Chad Ashton followed as interim coach.
Losada, a 38-year-old Argentine, will be MLS’s youngest active head coach.
He was an attacking midfielder in Argentina for Independiente (2003-05) and Universidad de Chile (2005-06), then in Belgium for Beerschot (2006-08, 2011-13, 2015-18), Anderlecht (2008-11), Charleroi (2010-11) and Lierse (2013-15) and in the Netherlands for Heerenveen (2009-10).