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U.S. Coach Jill Ellis' choices put her on the path to Women's World Cup

A coin flip led Jill Ellis to the World Cup.

When she was offered her first head coaching job 18 years ago, Ellis didn't know what to say. So she let a quarter decide for her.

"Heads I was going to stay, and tails I was going to fly," says Ellis, then an assistant on the women's soccer team at Virginia. "It was tails."

Few people have ever spent a quarter more wisely. The coin flip started Ellis on a journey that will take her to the longest and largest Women's World Cup in history, when her U.