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The ArsenalVision Podcast - Arsenal FC

Chapter Seven: Anson Dorrance

The ArsenalVision Podcast - Arsenal FC

ArsenalVision Podcast LLC

Sports, Soccer

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Founding Futbol is a year-long exploration of the critical moments that have led to soccer's emerging popularity in America. Subscribe to the Founding Football feed to get all the episodes twice weekly. In 1979, Anson Dorrance, already the men’s soccer coach at the University of North Carolina, was hired to coach the women’s team as well. It was transitioning from a club team to varsity team through the opportunities afforded women’s collegiate athletics by Title IX. Despite having the men’s job, Dorrance was tapped to take on a second team and within two years, the landscape of women’s college soccer would be forever changed.  During his tenure at UNC, Dorrance has built one of the best dynasties in sports history. He also is known globally as the coach of the US Women’s National Team that won the first Women’s World Cup in 1991. His contributions to the game are immeasurable.  Our guest on this episode is Anson Dorrance, himself.  Founding Futbol is a year-long exploration of the critical moments that have led to soccer's emerging popularity in America. Visit our website for more information: FoundingFutbol.com Host: Kent Malmros Guest: Anson Dorrance (UNC Coach) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There is no way I ever would have had an opportunity on the men's side to coach at higher and higher levels.

0:12.0

On the women's side, I could see that as possibilities.

0:16.0

But also, while the Title IX thing was going on, we were doing everything we could to expand the game at a collegiate level.

0:26.0

That was Anson Dorrance, our guest on today's episode.

0:31.6

And this is founding football.

0:35.6

In many ways, this project exists because of Anson Dorrance.

0:42.4

I've said in previous episodes that my passion for soccer was built on the countless

0:47.8

hours watching my daughter fall in love with and forge her own journey with the game.

0:53.5

That's her story, playing and working and aspiring to reach new heights on a soccer field.

0:59.7

My related story, then, is learning and falling in love with the sport as I became completely

1:06.0

immersed in it through her experiences.

1:09.5

Being the dad of a female soccer player and falling in love with the game

1:13.4

then is a large part of the story of soccer's growth in America. And if that's the case,

1:20.6

then Anson Dorrance is embedded in every soccer girl dad's narrative, even if he doesn't realize it. See, I didn't realize it

1:30.1

initially either, and I'm not sure I fully understood how interconnected my daughter's journey

1:35.5

is to Dorrance until I explicitly stopped to think about it. Maybe not everyone shares this

1:41.9

level of interconnectedness, but I bet it's more common than most

1:46.1

people realize.

1:47.8

While our connection with soccer started long before the 2015 World Cup, that U.S.

1:53.9

Women's National Team changed everything in our house.

1:57.7

That team and its run to the final captured our imaginations and elevated my daughter's

2:03.2

interest in and pursuit of playing the game at increasingly high levels. Two of her favorite players

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