Exiting Town specialist skills coach Steve Foley is to join the staff of US side the Tampa Bay Rowdies. Manager Roy Keane decided not to renew Foley’s contract at the end of the season, the ex-Colchester and Norwich coach having been at Portman Road for four years.
Foley had expressed an interest in the vacant Colchester manager's job but was not amongst the contenders to succeed Aidy Boothroyd, despite previously being a caretaker-boss, coach and player with the U's.
The 56-year-old will sign a three-year contract with the Florida side, who play in the USSF Division Two Professional League, the division below the MLS.
Foley will be working under head coach Paul Dalglish, who he knows well from their time together at Norwich City.
In 2008, Foley invited Dalglish to train with the Blues after his release by MLS side the Houston Dynamo.