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Bev Yanez sat in a chair in one of Racing Louisville’s offices with a bemused smile, her posture set with excitement.
“People strive their entire lives to say that they’ve done it once, right?” she said. “Something that they really love and that they’ve really been passionate about. And I now get to say that for two things.”
Yanez is, of course, talking about her love of both playing and coaching soccer. For almost a decade, Yanez had a successful professional playing career as an attacker that took her around the world to places like Norway and Japan, before settling for the majority of her career in the National Women’s Soccer League with the Seattle Reign. The whole time she was playing, Yanez was fostering a love of coaching as well, and from the time she was only 23 years old, she says her dream was to someday become the head coach of a professional club.
On Thursday, that dream came true when Racing Louisville announced that Yanez would be the club’s new head coach. She had spent…
