USL Sporting Director Mark Cartwright discusses pro/rel, switching to a European schedule & more!
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🗓️ 28 June 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In June 2021, USL appointed its first-ever Sporting Director in Mark Cartwright, a former player, manager, agent and Technical Director at Stoke City. In an exclusive interview with TSS, Cartwright discusses the growth and ambition of USL, its position within the global soccer ecosystem, and the appetite for both pro/rel and a European schedule switch!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and a special episode in which we dig into all things United Soccer League via a chat with USL Sporting Director Mark Cartwright. |
| 0:30.3 | Mark joined USL around a year ago in June 2021 as the league's first ever sporting director with a remit that focuses on the USL Academy |
| 0:38.7 | Program, talent identification, player development, coaching, contracts and global transfers. |
| 0:46.1 | Mark is a former goalkeeper who played for a number of English teams and for the Florida |
| 0:50.2 | Tech Panthers during his collegiate career. He's also been a manager, an agent, a |
| 0:56.1 | Fever consultant, a co-creator of the English Football Association's Level 5 Technical Director's |
| 1:01.7 | Workshop, and he was also technical director at Stoke City between 2012 and 2019. So yes, Mark has |
| 1:10.4 | done it all in the beautiful game, and now's realising the USL's big ambitions, |
| 1:14.6 | aiming to grow its pro player pathway and increase its visibility on a global scale. |
| 1:20.6 | My name's Ryan Bailey, here's my chat with Mark, who was speaking to TSS from USL headquarters in Tampa, Florida. |
| 1:35.3 | Mark, thank you very much for joining us on Total Soccer Show. |
| 1:38.1 | How are you today? Where are you today? |
| 1:40.5 | I'm great, Ryan. Firstly, thanks for the invite. |
| 1:43.7 | Yeah, so at the moment, I'm currently at the |
| 1:46.2 | USL headquarters, which is based in Tampa. Very nice. And do you set your watch to the storms at 3pm |
| 1:52.8 | every day down in Tampa? Is that how it works down there? It pretty much, mate, yeah. Certainly over |
| 1:57.4 | the next couple of months, you'll be able to to see literally just behind me over the shoulders of the airport |
| 2:02.1 | and you can see the storms rolling in literally on the dot three o'clock 3.30 and if it looks a particularly bad one |
| 2:09.7 | you get you get the hell out of dodge and go home because they struggle to drive at the best of times over here |
| 2:15.9 | but with a massive thunderstorm it it makes it even worse. |
| 2:18.5 | Indeed. Now, obviously, a little bit of a different climate for you in Florida. |
| 2:22.6 | Was that part of what attracted you to the role to come over to the States? |
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