Inside the identical month, September 2023, each Becki Tweed and Bev Yanez had been named head coaches of Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League golf equipment.
As interim head coach for the second half of the 2023 NWSL season, Tweed led the way in which for Angel Metropolis FC as she coached the workforce to the NWSL Playoffs and recorded one loss beneath her management. For Yanez, she beforehand performed within the NWSL as a key participant for Seattle Reign FC and served as an assistant coach with Racing Louisville FC for a season the place she led the membership to reaching the 2023 NWSL Problem Cup Ultimate.
Though each of their teaching careers have included varied particular person milestones, Tweed and Yanez had been as soon as on the identical aspect, each assistant teaching with NY/NJ Gotham FC in 2021. Although they continue to be shut buddies and colleagues from their time with Gotham, the pair of coaches are actually on reverse sides as the 2 confronted in opposition to one another for the primary time since changing into head coaches.
“This league is so small however Bev is unquestionably certainly one of my closest buddies on this league,” Tweed informed The Equalizer. “She is somebody I’ve huge respect and admiration for and anyone that I would like nothing however success for, aside from on Wednesday. We’re at all times going to snort about it however I believe we respect one another massively on the sector and off the sector. I’m simply so pleased to see her doing as nicely and he or she’ll be anyone that I’ll proceed to be a buddy for and to be somebody I want success for, apart from after we play in opposition to one another.”
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