The New York Red Bulls did not exactly plan to reboot this winter.

Yet the one-two punch of missing out on the Audi MLS Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2009 and a profound family hardship for head of sport Jochen Schneider has resulted in RBNY “moving forward with a fresh beginning” for next season.

That was the revelation from a Tuesday afternoon media availability in the wake of head coach Sandro Schwarz’s dismissal the previous day, with Schneider explaining his concurrent decision to depart the club and return to Germany, passing the reins to Julian de Guzman , the former Canadian international who’s been his understudy since last year.

“My plan, and Red Bull's plan, was that I stay for one more year until the end of ‘26, until my wife, Annabella, got the diagnosis middl

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