Chansky’s Notebook: Anson Field?
Posted Jul 29, 2019
Anson Dorrance’s world is still right here in Chapel Hill. The surge of women’s soccer in this country can be placed right in Anson’s lap after he built a dominant program at North Carolina and cornered the market on the relatively few world-class recruits out there at the time. He created a monster. Dorrance is well into his 60s but nowhere near retirement.
(Chapelboro.com)
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