With no girls league available in the Midlands region of England where she grew up in the 1980s and early 1990s, Laura Harvey played on boys teams and in pickup games at aneighborhood park where the kids included Laura Bassett, now a two-time England World Cup player, and John Curtis,whose pro career started at Manchester United. Atage 14, Harvey joined Coventry City’s women’s team. By then she had already gathered experience that would serve her well for the coaching career she launched at age 22 in 2002.
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