Pia Sundhage, who led the USA to gold medals at the 2008 and 2012Olympics and her native Sweden to the silver medal in 2016, will take on the greatest challenge of her career as she was named new head coach of the Brazilian women’s national team with the task ofleading it at the 2020 Olympics in Japan.

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