U.S. Soccer has appointed Everett Palache as the head coach of the U.S. Men’s Deaf National Team in 2024. Palachebrings 20 years of coaching and technical experience on the national and local level, having served U.S. Soccer as a Coaching Educator and assistant coach in the Extended National Teams program. Locally, he has spent the last 13 years with Cleveland Force Soccer Club where he currently serves as Technical Director, guiding all sporting aspects for the organization. Prior to that role, he worked as the club’s Director of Soccer Programming and Director of Coaching from 2011-2018, and Academy Director, Director of Coaching and USL Technical Director from 2018-2021.

Concurrent with his time at Cleveland Force, Palache worked as Assistant Technical Director for Cleveland Soccer Academy from 2011-2015, and in various coaching roles with Cleveland United, Brad Friedel’s Premier Soccer Academy, Columbus Crew Juniors, Cleveland Alliance Soccer Academy and Cleveland Soccer Academy.

Holder of the U.S. Soccer National “A” License and Academy Director License, Palache has also earned the NSCAA’s Director of Coaching License. A 2002 graduate of Philadelphia University where he earned a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Psychology, Palache played collegiately for the Rams from 1998-2001, and also with Internationals Soccer Club, Cleveland Futbol Club and Cleveland United Soccer Club.

The U.S. Men’s Deaf National Team is one of nine teams under U.S. Soccer’s Extended National Teams program and includes eligible qualifying players who must have a hearing loss of at least 55DB in their “better ear.” Having joined U.S. Soccer in 2022, the Deaf MNT has played internationally since 1965, competing in the DIFA World Deaf Football Championships, the Summer Deaflympics and Deaf Pan American Games.