The 34-year-old Lagerwey has spent the past seven years as a television broadcaster with D.C. United, and worked at the same international law firm - Latham & Watkins - that produced Major League Soccer founder Alan Rothenberg, as well as league deputy commissioner Ivan Gazidis and president Mark Abbott.

Lagerwey also was a back-up goalkeeper with the Dallas Burn in 1997-98, when current RSL coach Jason Kreis was just beginning his long career in the league. Lagerway played 51 games in his five-year MLS career, for Kansas City, Dallas and the defunct Miami Fusion.

RSL expects to introduce Lagerwey to members of the media before the team plays the Los Angeles Galaxy at Rice-Eccles Stadium on Wednesday night. After that, RSL has just five games remaining in a season that almost certainly will see them miss the playoffs for the third straight year.

Pastorino resigned from RSL at the same time John Ellinger was fired as coach in May and re-assigned as the team's technical director, basically handling the duties of a general manager until leaving the team last month to pursue a job with U.S. Youth Soccer in Texas.