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Paige Monaghan will not be your typical crew captain. She doesn’t play on the senior worldwide stage. She’s by no means received a Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League championship. Monaghan doesn’t see this as a drawback. In truth, it’s a part of what makes her uniquely prepared for this second with the Utah Royals’ second go within the NWSL.
“I’m a special sort of captain,” Monaghan instructed The Equalizer. “Usually you see captains which might be nationwide crew gamers who’ve performed in a World Cup or on an Olympic crew and have unimaginable accolades, whereas for me, I simply actually grew up on this league.”
Very like Monaghan herself, you may say the Utah Royals is a crew flying beneath the radar. Re-joining the NWSL after initially shutting down in 2020, the crew’s reentry to the league was considerably overshadowed by expansion-side Bay FC’s heavily-anticipated arrival. Monaghan and her teammates aren’t frightened, although. They know they will sustain.
Led by former participant and first-time NWSL coach Amy Rodriguez, this younger Royals squad – with a median age of 24 – is out to show that they’re proper the place they belong.
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