New Loons soccer boss El-Ahmad ready to leave Barnsley F.C. on Dec. 15

When Minnesota United searched for a new sporting director, it reached outside MLS and hired the son of a Lebanese father and a Czech mother who raised him in Sweden. Khaled El-Ahmad comes from Barnsley FC in England's third division with a Midwestern connection, too. He played center back in the early 2000s at Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where Minnesotans Manny Lagos and Tony Sanneh starred a decade ...