A look at some of the coach's accomplishments, and what he says motivates him:
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Lacking the budget to gather his players for regular training camps, Dorrance instead gave them individual regimes which honed their ability to play one-on-one and ensured they would go to the first World Cup tournament as the fittest team in the competition."We didn't have a professional league at the time.
The United States prevailed in no small part because of the indefatigability of their star striker Michelle Akers. Top scorer in the tournament, she scored the late match-winning goal, her tenth of the finals, after pressing the Norwegian back line into a mistake in true Dorrance style. In 2000, she was hailed by FIFA as one of two female players of the century.
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