When Carrie Kveton was working on her UEFA Pro Coaching license in 2019, the Women’s World Cup was underway in France.

“It would have been ideal for our instructors to have us watch the games,” she says. “But very few of them even knew it was going on.”

Kveton earned that badge. She went on to coach at the highest level in Denmark — leading teams to the knockout rounds of the UEFA Women’s Champions League — and in the U.S.

Now, as head coach of the U-19 women’s youth national team, Kveton helps prepare athletes for their own World Cups. 

She sees her role as far more than technical. Her goal — in tandem, she says, with the entire youth national teams staff, with Emma Hayes at the helm — is to “make each player’s dreams come true.”

Growing up near Dallas, her own dream was to wear the American crest. She never did. But after starring at the University of North Texas, Kveton still yearned to play. She spent two years in England with Bristol Rovers, then seven more in Denmark with Fortuna Hjørring. 

Danish culture made an enormous impact on her, personally and professionally. “Everyone helps everyone. There’s a sense of ‘we’re all in this together,’” Kveton explains. She brought that philosophy to her U-19 staff. “We help our player at any time, with any aspect of the game, or their lives.”

Kveton began coaching early, working camps while still a teenager, and continuing in college. Her own coaches had modeled the importance of giving back to the game, and she hoped to pay it forward. A year on staff at NCAA Division II Pfeiffer College in North Carolina before heading overseas solidified her love for the coaching profession. 

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