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SportsBeat KC: Continued excellence is Vlatko Andonovski’s task as USWNT coach

Vlatko Andonovski is head coach of the U.S. Women’s National Team.
Vlatko Andonovski is head coach of the U.S. Women’s National Team. The Associated Press

This is no small task for Kansas City’s Vlatko Andonovski: maintain the excellence of the world’s best women’s soccer club, the two-time defending World Cup champion U.S. women’s national team. In an interview with Star columnists Sam Mellinger and Vahe Gregorian and host Blair Kerkhoff on SportsBeat KC, Adonovski says he’s up to the challenge as the new coach of the USWNT. He also discussed his days as an indoor soccer player and coach, and women’s professional league coach, and growing up in a soccer-centric family in Macedonia.

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Vlatko Adonovski’s unlikely path from Skopje to KC to leading U.S. women’s soccer

U.S women’s soccer team has a new coach, Kansas City’s Vlatko Andonovski

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Blair Kerkhoff
The Kansas City Star
Blair Kerkhoff has covered sports for The Kansas City Star since 1989. He was elected to the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 2023.
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