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Twila Kilgore, assistant coach on the U.S. team watches players warm up prior to a CONCACAF Women's Championship soccer semifinal match against Costa Rica in Monterrey, Mexico, Thursday, July 14, 2022.
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TWILA KILGORE knew her career path when she was just 12 years old, thanks to a youth soccer coach who used to drive her to practice.
During those rides, she got to hear “all the behind-the-scene things that were happening” and was “exposed to what a coach actually does,” she said. “I pretty much knew then that when I was done playing, I would coach.”
Now she’s an assistant for the US women’s national team and one of just four women in the United States who hold the US Soccer Federation’s elite pro licence.
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