Utah Royals FC ahead Amy Rodriguez (8) fixes her sleeve throughout play because the Utah Royals and Sky Blue play within the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League Problem Cup at Zions Financial institution stadium in Herriman on Saturday, July 4, 2020. Utah received 1-0. Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information
The second model of Utah Royals FC will reportedly be coached by probably the most notable gamers from the primary model of the crew — and probably the most well-known
URFC has a press convention scheduled for Thursday morning to announce its new head coach, however late Wednesday afternoon, ESPN’s Jeff Carlisle reported that Amy Rodriguez is the rent.
Rodriguez, 36, was a mainstay with the USA Ladies’s Nationwide Staff from 2005-2015, showing in two Olympics and two World Cups and scoring 30 objectives with 19 assists.
In 2018, Rodriguez joined URFC, as she was a part of the FC Kansas Metropolis roster that was being relocated to Utah.
Rodriguez was with the membership for all three seasons of its preliminary iteration earlier than going again to Kansas Metropolis when URFC was offered to Angie and Chris Lengthy there in 2021.
Rodriguez was ultimately traded to the North Carolina Braveness, and he or she finally retired from enjoying.
In January of 2022, Rodriguez grew to become an assistant coach at USC, her alma mater, and he or she has been in that position so far.
Whereas Rodriguez actually brings nice title recognition, her rent is probably dangerous given her lack of expertise as both a head coach or as a coach in any capability on the skilled degree.
With URFC primed to rejoin the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League for the 2024 season, it has rather less than a yr to construct the primary roster that Rodriguez will coach.
“Anytime you step into a job that's above you, there’s positively far more accountability that comes with it,” Rodriguez instructed Carlisle. “There’s an pleasure [and] a possible to make one thing my very own and that will get me fired up.
“However I take it with a large amount of accountability that I’m going to now step into, and I’m going to present it my highest. I feel as a participant, I at all times leaned on arduous work, and I feel equally on this teaching position, I’ll do the very same.”