Anson Dorrance
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"Anson Dorrance" is an American soccer coach (sport)/coach. He is currently the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer/women's soccer program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/University of North Carolina. He has one of the most successful coaching records in the history of athletics. Under Dorrance's leadership, the Tar Heels have won 21 of the 31 NCAA Women's Soccer Championships. The Tar Heels' record under Dorrance is 719-39-24 (.935 winning percentage) over 33 seasons as of September 9, 2011. He has led his team to a 101-game unbeaten streak and coached 13 different women to a total of 20 National Player of the Year awards. The NCAA has recognized Dorrance as the Women's Soccer Coach of the Year seven times (1982, 1986, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2006) and as the Men's Soccer Coach of the Year in 1987. On March 10, 2008 Dorrance was elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame.

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I was very excited about the fact we did some good things. We created some good chances. No complaints about the final results. 1-0 Mexico is fine by me.

This reminded me of the games we used to play in the '70s and '80s up here with everyone standing around the field. We are going to big stadiums, but they lack intimacy, and I liked to be able to come back to this type of atmosphere.

This game rewards you for playing with huge hearts. I just credit their mentality. They made it very difficult for us to play.

Our game field was always a mess, but when we hired him everything was transformed. Our field has more traffic than any field we play on and it's still one of the best.