Benevento con il cuore

Carolina MORACE – On. Tommaso PELLEGRINO

 

La partita del Cuore di Benevento del 29 novembre scorso, si è conclusa con la vittoria della Nazionale Parlamentari per ben 6 reti a zero, nei confronti della Nazionale Cantanti.
Marcatori d’eccezione con tre reti ciascuno, gli Onorevoli Pellegrino e Bellotti.

She’s Already Been Where No Woman Has Gone Before… Is Canada’s Next?

GOLTV  has learned that former Italian Women’s National Team Coach Carolina Morace is the front runner to succeed Even Pellerud as Canada’s Women’s National Team Head Coach.  Although it can not be confirmed when she will officially hired, it is said to be sometime early in the New Year.  Morace was a great player in her own right.  She made her debut for Italy in 1978 at the age of 14 and scored 105 goals in 151 games and over 550 goals in league play.  She hung up the boots for good, retiring from playing in 1997, but that is probably not what she’s most famous for.  In 1999 she became the first female in Italy to coach a professional men’s football team, Viterbese.  At the time of her hiring Viterbese had just been promoted to the Serie C.  The 1997 FIFA World Player of the Year signed a two year deal at the time and stepped down when her contract was up after heavy media pressure.  After leaving as Italy’s head coach in 2005 she has been a television analyst for La7.

This will not be Morace’s first trip across the pond to influence Canadian soccer players.  A 2008 FIFA Soccer Ambassador, Morace was in the Toronto area in March and July this year instructing soccer clinics.  At the camp she attended in March Morace was impressed by the number of girls playing the sport in Canada and their great athleticism apparently so much she wants to be involved full time.

 After taking the position in 2000 Norwegian born Even Pellerud stepped down as National Team Head Coach after the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.  He transformed the women’s program and led Canada to a fourth place finish at the 2003 Women’s World Cup.  Despite his success, in recent years, Pellerud has been criticized for his style of play.  Pellerud prefers a direct style and while that has worked against many of the lesser soccer nations of the world it has not been successful against the top nations in the world.  Canadian Soccer Association Vice President Victor Montagliani said a couple of weeks ago they have narrowed the position down to “a handful” of candidates, but a source very high in the women’s game has confirmed that Morace will take over for Pellerud.  Be sure to tune into Extra Time this Thursday for more on this story as it develops.

(Lee Godfrey)

 

 

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“Ambassador coaches out in the field”

Trent Dickie is a smart young footballer. When the Balclutha junior player heard he was to be coached by a former captain of the Italian women’s football team, there was only one hat he was going to wear: the one with Italia on it. Dickie was among the large group of youngsters that gathered at John McGlashan College on Saturday to be coached by travelling Fifa ambassador coaches Carolina Morace and New Zealander Michelle Cox. The coaches praised McGlashan’s superb facilities, as practical coaching sessions were run in the idyllic location. Talks and video shows highlighted how women’s football has exploded on to the world scene.
Morace’s career exemplified the opportunities available.
She played for Italy when only 14 years old, scored more than 500 goals in her career, and became the the first woman to coach an Italian professional men’s side. The Fifa ambassadors tour is to promote the Under-17 Women’s World Cup, which starts in Christchurch on October 29 with a match between Germany and Ghana.

–> http://www.odt.co.nz/sport/soccer/26936/soccer-ambassador-coaches-out-field

Carolina Morace and Michelle Cox

“Testing times for defender”

Conundrum? Absolutely not. After all, exams can be taken again, but the opportunity to play in a Fifa World Cup is a rare thing for any New Zealand footballer. “I think most of us will be studying during the next few weeks – we have time set aside for study – but the World Cup is the priority for all of us,” the Wellington 17-year-old said this week. “It’s really exciting because we’ve been waiting two years for this.” Defender Nguyen, a former Onslow and Miramar Rangers player, is one of two Wellingtonians in the New Zealand team for the October 28-November 16 tournament, the other being Hannah Wall. Both have uprooted themselves during their seventh form year and moved to Auckland so the team could prepare together, Nguyen leaving her friends at Wellington Girls College and joining Wall at Auckland’s Epsom Girls Grammar. Nguyen is staying with family friends in her first year away from the city of her birth. “I’ve had to move cities and give up my old school, and it was my last year of school so I had to give up leadership roles and captain of my school team, and just the whole social life, but it’s all worth it.  “And it’s good to have my teammates up here, they’re all supportive. Basically, when we’re not on the field, we’re together because they’re pretty much my best friends. We’re a really tight team.” But that tightness is not always on show at training, with the players competing fiercely for spots ahead of their opening match of the tournament against Canada in Auckland on October 28. “Everyone is peaking performance and fitness-wise so it has been quite hard these past couple of weeks. It’s really competitive, just the training, the fitness and everything.” Nguyen said New Zealand aimed to get out of group stage and into the quarterfinals, which would see them play at Wellington’s Westpac Stadium for a second time. Their first two group matches, against Canada and Denmark, are in Auckland, with the third, against Colombia, in Wellington on November 4. Meanwhile, a Fifa ambassadors tour, featuring Oceania player of the century Wynton Rufer, former New Zealand international and Fifa ambassador Michele Cox and former Italian striker and coach Carolina Morace, rolled into Wellington yesterday. The trio will spend the next two days promoting the World Cup and women’s football, conducting a series of coaching clinics in Wellington and Lower Hutt today and various other promotional activities before heading to Napier on Saturday.

–> http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominionpost/4728824a6033.html

MORACE - COX