The office that until Monday had been Lutz Pfannenstiel’s, which overlooks the practice field at St. Louis City SC’s training facility, sat dark and empty Tuesday morning as the team went through its first day of practices since the man who was responsible for all those players being there was fired.

In the search for a replacement, it was Day 2.

“Day 1 was yesterday,” said club president and general manager Diego Gigliani, meeting with reporters Tuesday a few paces off the field while the team practiced. “I would say we receive a lot of emails, WhatsApp messages and calls, LinkedIn notes. A lot of people reach out very quickly. But obviously this is like when you're looking for a player: reactive suggestions of players are rarely the ones that one follows. One is more proactive about id

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