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Philip Poole has seen “the top of the mountain,” as he calls it. Poole has served in various roles on the United States women’s national team coaching staff for the past four years. He witnessed how some of the best players in the world operate — and how even they crave feedback for how they can improve.
“You get a snapshot of saying, ‘This is the upper echelon, this is the top level of the game,’” Poole told The Equalizer. “And it creates that picture for you in terms of saying, ‘Okay, here, here is that piece that so few people are fortunate enough to get to see and get to experience.”
Now, Poole will apply his knowledge from the U.S. national team and two decades of coaching experience as the first head coach of the Charlotte, North Carolina-based team in the new USL Super League that will launch in August.
He is the second head coach to be appointed by a team in the league, which plans to operate as a first-division circuit competing with the National Women’s Soccer League. The Tampa…
