Vlatko Andonovski feels like he is home again -- not just in obvious geographical terms, but in the spiritual sense of belonging. Saturday's NWSL season opener against the Portland Thorns will be Andonovski's first as head coach of the Kansas City Current, his hometown team in the city where he made a name for himself before becoming coach of the U.S. women's national team.
Andonovski has been in his element since the NWSL preseason started six weeks ago, coaching players daily and watching practice film late into the night. The club game suits him, far more than the international setting in which he'd operated for the past four years.