D.C. United have made an addition to their teaching employees forward of the 2021 season, asserting Friday the membership has employed Nicolas Frutos as an assistant to recently-hired head coach Hernan Losada.
Frutos joins D.C. from Anderlecht within the Belgian prime flight, the place he spent six seasons a participant and labored as an assistant coach in a number of totally different capacities following his retirement. It reunites Losada with a former teammate, as he performed with Frutos at Independiente in 2004-2005.
“I’ve identified Nicolás for years and can’t communicate extremely sufficient of his character. We first performed collectively in 2004 for Independiente in Argentina then adopted related profession paths all through Europe, together with enjoying for Anderlecht,” Losada stated in Friday’s launch. “As a participant, he was an clever ahead and he has labored arduous since retirement to change into an amazing tactician and coach. His artistic attacking thoughts paired together with his expertise growing youth gamers and integrating them into the primary staff might be a precious addition to our spectacular teaching employees at D.C. United.”
Along with Anderlecht, Frutos has additionally been on the employees of Unión de Santa Fe in Argentina the place he was the supervisor for the reserve staff along with working carefully with the youth staff in 2011. He is additionally hung out on the teaching staffs of Paraguayan facet Membership Olimpia and San Luis de Quillota within the Chilean first division.
He’ll be a part of DC’s employees for Losada’s first season in cost, after the 38-year-old Argentine was formally introduced because the membership’s new head coach final month following the departure of Ben Olsen final season.