The whistle is blown, and a round-checkered ball shoots across a green field.
All eyes are on the field and the players.
Among the vast number of spectators are the soccer-wise eyes of Assistant Coach, John Ellis. If you watch him and not the players on the field, you can see Ellis intently looking on as the players race up and down the field searching for an opening to score. Some might think there is nothing special about the assistant coach of a soccer team, but those thoughts would be banished if they knew which soccer team Ellis coaches because it is no ordinary team. Ellis is assistant coach of the United States Women's National Soccer Team. The whistle is blown and the girls shake hands with the other team, then sit in the middle of the field and stretch while the coaches go over the ups and downs of the last 90 minutes of play.