The North Carolina Courage have appointed Dr. Ceri Bowley as their new chief soccer officer, a move aimed at enhancing the club's technical direction. Bowley, previously with Manchester City's City Football Group, has experienced significant success and aims to implement similar methodologies at the Courage. He acknowledges the recent trend of teams trying to replicate Pep Guardiola’s style but warns against merely copying without understanding the intricate details behind it. Bowley steps into a successful franchise with a history of winning, as they seek to maintain their dominance in the NWSL by leveraging a possession-dominant strategy.
We always say that styles make fights, but I think more and more now, across so many leagues, we see teams trying to play the way that Pep plays.
I think the biggest challenge is, you just get copycat of it and unless you really know the detail of how Guardiola does it, then it's very difficult to replicate it.
Becoming a sporting director in the U.S. was the goal I had been building toward. I enter a Courage team with a history of success.
North Carolina is already the most possession-dominant team in the NWSL under head coach Sean Nahas, a game style kind of synonymous with what we were doing at City.
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