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Jill Ellis is actually a good coach

Jill Ellis is actually a good coach

LYON, France — About an hour after her team dispatched England to book a return trip to the World Cup final, Jill Ellis sat in the press room at Parc Olympique Lyonnais and fielded a question about having to police outside distractions from penetrating her team. Ellis initially misunderstood the question.

“I don’t police my team. They can say what they want,” she said in a tone that, for Ellis, was quite stern.

It was not the question she was supposed to answer, but still it offered a look into the philosophy of the head coach that lives under a constant cloud of criticism even as she sits on the brink of joining Vittorio Pozzo (Italian men, 1934 and 1938) as the only person to coach multiple World Cup champions.

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Or does she live under that cloud?

“I don’t read anything you guys write and I don’t care what you think,” she said at a different point during Tuesday night’s press conference.

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