Sharolta Louisa Nonen (born December 30, 1977) is a

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former

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defender and current women's soccer coach of the Florida International University Panthers. She played for the

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in college, where she was the first three-time All-American and the first Big 12 Player of the Year in program history. With the Atlanta Beat in the

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, Nonen was an All-Star with and named Top 3 defenders in the WUSA, All Star Player for

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(Danish League) and led the team to its first First place finish in over 10 years,

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she was the First Player coach in Silverbacks semi-professional history and she led the team to one of its highest finishes ever, she was an All Star at

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( W-League) and with

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( WPS) was a part of the National Championship team in 2009. She was a member of the Canadian National Team, taking part in the

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and

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where she was named to the All-Tournament team in both appearances (Top 11 Players in Women's World Cup). She was also named twice as a starter to lead the back line in the All-World Team games 2001 & 2003. Since retiring, Nonen has coached in the Youth, Olympic, Regional, National, Semi-Professional and Collegiate ranks.

International career

In August 2006

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and Christine Latham refused to attend two

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s against

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and fell into dispute with team coach Even Pellerud. Nonen joined Hooper and Latham in publicly calling for Pellerud's removal. Pellerud had pressured them to break their club contracts in order to join

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and had tried to fix the outcome of a

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play-off by releasing certain national team players but not others. Pellerud was abusive towards players and forced players to play through significant injuries or risk losing their funding. The players boycotted the 2007 World Cup and demanded fair and safe conditions for themselves and their teammates."

References

External links

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Canada Soccer player profile

WPS Atlanta Beat player profile

WUSA Atlanta Beat player profile

Nebraska player profile
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