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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Several issues likely held the numbers down.  But, now, I think you should start to see rapid growth in the numbers of women coaches.  Why?

NWSL players who are leaving the league are not all well-off and they will have pretty impressive playing resumes.  All of the coaches my daughter had growing up played either in college or in Europe.  None played Premier Division 1, but all played some professional soccer.  Then they got into youth coaching.

No, Morgan isn’t going to coach u9s.  But the roster turnover is going to be about 25 percent ever year.  And, USLW will be about the same.  It should take about 10 seconds before the top youth clubs start pushing their women coaches as the reason to come play for them.  “Jane Doe coaches our u15s.  Jane played 4 years at Big College and then 3 years with NWSL team X.”

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The pro players and national team players are great athletes with varying degrees of game knowledge. Most of the very good players just do their thing because they have the athleticism to do it. They are not students of the game. The u littles require a different type of coach vs u15 vs u18 vs u23 plus. The NWSL has a very narrow style of play and is very limited in terms of soccer iq, technical skill, tactics and strategy.

Also the pay suck, few pro players want to coach u9-u13(because the play is so bad) and many of the players have come through the US system which is way behind the rest of the world. [/quote]

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