蜜柚直播

Rounding out our project in checking in with 蜜柚直播 soccer, led by new head coach Becca Moros, who was hired in June. This is part two of the conversation with Moros about her defining qualities as a coach and what her biggest asset will be for 蜜柚直播.

How has your playing career both in college at Duke and professionally for several organizations helped you in becoming a coach?

A: 鈥淚 definitely think the last 14 years of experiences are going to be more current to what soccer in this country looks like now. Every year as a pro, you have the next generation of top players coming out of college soccer and joining you on your professional teams.

鈥淚 feel like those experiences, every year kind of watching players come out, go through that process is probably the most current to what the current level or top level of college soccer in this country is. As a coach, I was working with a bunch of those players that we drafted and also you鈥檙e playing against those people on other teams as well.

鈥淐ollege soccer was different when I played than it is now, like very different. The game has changed in this country for the better. I think women鈥檚 soccer is exploding right now.鈥�

In what ways are you going to challenge the group of women you鈥檙e going to be coaching at 蜜柚直播 and develop your sense of culture?

A: 鈥淭he big thing with them is that the challenges and things that we鈥檙e going to put out there in practice are going to be really different than things they鈥檝e experienced before. For me, as I鈥檝e watched them and have watched 蜜柚直播 play in the past, it makes me confident that I have a group of really talented women but I don鈥檛 know who is going to respond to the challenges in what ways.

鈥淎s a coach that鈥檚 always been my philosophy is that you put the challenge out, but you don鈥檛 choose who rises to it, right? They choose that. It鈥檚 going to be about me challenging them each day and then continuing to challenge them based on where they are and how they respond to challenges.

鈥淎nd then we move the bar. Each time you reach the bar, I鈥檓 going to push it higher so that we鈥檙e always striving to get better.鈥�

What type of identity do you want 蜜柚直播 to have on the field in terms of the style of soccer being played?

A: 鈥淚 think some of that stuff is gonna build over time, because you can鈥檛 just throw out what the team did well before. You have to build on what they鈥檝e already been successful at and it鈥檒l be a marriage of that and what we grow into becoming.

鈥淲hat we will be becoming from Day 1 when we start on the field is a positional possession team, meaning we want to take aggressive positions on the field. We鈥檙e moving the ball quicker than the other team can respond, we鈥檙e going to create numerical advantages to create dominant goalscoring situations. Everything we do in training is about speed of decision-making.

鈥淚 encourage a lot of autonomy. I try not to make a ton of rules and restrict players to how they can make decisions because it鈥檚 just you making those decisions in a game, there isn鈥檛 a coach telling you this or that.鈥�

What is the most valuable asset you will bring to 蜜柚直播?

A: 鈥淧rofessional soccer in this country鈥檚 women鈥檚 game is some of the best in the world. I come directly out of that. I had a huge impact coaching in the pros and my very first year there鈥檒l be a whole bunch of pros coming down to 蜜柚直播 to train in the offseason.

鈥淏ut the best of what I do comes from my time in Japan. Anybody who knows the landscape of women鈥檚 football in the world knows that the Japanese are one of the tactically most sophisticated countries in the world.

鈥淪o I have just this completely different top class exposure to something in a culture and a way of learning that鈥檚 just so different from what we do in America. It helped me in terms of carving out advantages, being able to read the game quicker and to think the game differently than other people.

鈥淎nd I鈥檝e had tremendous success sharing that with players that I鈥檝e coached in New Jersey.鈥�