John Herdman

John Herdman ( born July 19, 1975 in Consett, County Durham, England) is an English football coach who coached the Canadian women 's national soccer team at the time.

From 2006 to 2011 he coached the New Zealand national football team of women and the U-20 team, with whom he participated in the U-20 World Cup Women 2008. 2007 and 2010 his team won the Ozeanienmeisterschaft each of the women and thus qualified for the world championships in 2007 and 2011, in which New Zealand but left respectively in the preliminary round. In addition, he led the New Zealand team to the Olympic Games in Beijing, left there but after a draw against Japan and two defeats against Norway and the U.S. in the preliminary round of.

According to the 2011 World Cup, he took over the Canadian national soccer team of women. His first success with the new team was winning the gold medal at the Pan American Games in 2011 in the final against Brazil. Then he was able to use the home advantage at the CONCACAF qualifying tournament in Vancouver for the Olympic Games in London and reached the Olympic football tournament in his native country. He reached with his team the match for the bronze medal, which Canada won 1-0 against France.