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3 Vlatko Andonovski replacements at head coach for the USWNT

By Caden Charpentier

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - JULY 31: Head coach Vlatko Andonovski of the United States during a team training session on July 31, 2023 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Robin Alam/USSF/Getty Images)
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - JULY 31: Head coach Vlatko Andonovski of the United States during a team training session on July 31, 2023 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Robin Alam/USSF/Getty Images) /
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Jamaica’s coach Lorne Donaldson (R) talks to player Jody Brown (L) during a training session in Melbourne on August 7, 2023, on the eve of the Women’s World Cup football match between Colombia and Jamaica. (Photo by William WEST / AFP) (Photo by WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images)
Jamaica’s coach Lorne Donaldson (R) talks to player Jody Brown (L) during a training session in Melbourne on August 7, 2023, on the eve of the Women’s World Cup football match between Colombia and Jamaica. (Photo by William WEST / AFP) (Photo by WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images) /

Vlatko Andonovski replacements for the USWNT: 1. Lorne Donaldson

Current role: Jamacia WNT head coach

With considerably less investment by the football federation, Lorne Donaldson managed to lead an inspiring run this summer with the Reggae Girlz. In just his second year at the helm, he turned a side that conceded 12 goals in the group stage in 2019 to one that let in just a single goal through four World Cup contests. The current Jamaican headman has played and coached professional soccer in the United States in the past.

Most recently, Donaldson was one of the assistants for Major League Soccer side Colorado Rapids. He played collegiately in Denver, Colorado, a state that produced both Sophia Smith and Lindsey Horan among others within the USWNT.

Similar to Priestman, and Waldrum, this is going to depend a whole lot on if Jamaica wants to keep him around following this historic run on the world stage. He has helped build Mallory Swanson, and Smith into the players they are today at Real Colorado, something few other candidates for this job can say did. That defensive game plan this summer combined with that experience in the United States makes Donaldson a quality individual to lead this nation back to international.

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