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FC Cincinnati Hires Jaap Stam as New Manager

With MLS on hold, FC Cincinnati has taken the opportunity to find a new manager.

Former Manchester United and Netherlands defender Jaap Stam has been tabbed to replace countryman Ron Jans, who resigned in February after an investigation into his use of racist slurs.

Stam most recently managed at Feyenoord in his native Netherlands, where he also coached at PEC Zwolle and Ajax's youth team. That sandwiched a two-year stint at Reading in England.

He figures to arrive in Cincinnati when travel conditions make that plausible and will take the reins from interim manager Yoann Damet, who filled that role for a second straight year after doing so following the firing of the club's inaugural MLS manager, Alan Koch.