Sharolta Nonen

Sharolta Louisa Nonen (born December 30, 1977, in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian former[1] soccer defender and current women’s soccer coach of the Florida International University Panthers. She played for Nebraska Cornhuskers (NCAA)where she was the First 3X All-American and the First Big 12 Player of the Year in Nebraska soccer History, Atlanta Beat (WUSA) Nonen was an All Star with and named Top 3 defenders in the WUSA, All Star Player for Fortuna Hjørring (Danish League) and led the team to its first, First place finish in over 10 years, Atlanta Silverbacks 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 FC Indiana (W-League) and with Los Angeles Sol (WPS) was a part of the National Championship team in 2009.

Sharolta Nonen
Personal information
Full name Sharolta Louisa Nonen
Date of birth (1977-12-30) December 30, 1977
Place of birth Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Playing position(s) Defender
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–1999 Nebraska Cornhuskers 93 (9)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2003 Atlanta Beat 67 (0)
2005–2008 Atlanta Silverbacks 22 (1)
2009 F.C. Indiana 10 (0)
2009 Los Angeles Sol 2 (0)
2010 Atlanta Beat 0 (0)
Total 101 (1)
National team‡
1999–2006 Canada 63 (1)
Teams managed
2013–2015 Georgia Gwinnett College Grizzlies (assistant)
2015–2017 East Carolina Pirates (assistant)
2017– FIU Panthers
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of September 25, 2009
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of September 25, 2009

She was a member of the Canadian National Team, taking part in the 1999 and 2003 World Cups 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.[2]

Since retiring, Nonen has coached in the Youth, Olympic, Regional, National, Semi-Professional and Collegiate ranks.

International career

In August 2006 Charmaine Hooper and Christine Latham refused to attend two exhibition games against China and fell into dispute with team coach Even Pellerud. Nonen joined Hooper and Latham in publicly calling for Pellerud's removal. The faction alleged that he had pressured them to break their club contracts in order to join Vancouver Whitecaps and had tried to fix the outcome of a USL W-League play-off by releasing certain national team players but not others.[3] Pellerud suspended the players and terminated their funding. In June 2007 an arbitrator ruled in favour of the coach. Hooper's replacement as captain Christine Sinclair strongly criticised the players' actions: "They let down their teammates and since then have done nothing to rectify it. I wouldn't want them as teammates."[4]

References
  1. Former Nebraska Beat star wants to help girls succeed. Dunwoody Crier
  2. Statistics in FIFA's website
  3. Mallett, Peter (October 21, 2006). "Players call for inquiry into coach". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
  4. "Arbitrator rules in Canadian soccer coach's favour". CBC Sports. June 20, 2007. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
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