Sharolta Nonen


Sharolta Louisa Nonen is a Canadian former soccer defender and current women’s soccer coach of the Florida International University Panthers. She played for Nebraska Cornhuskers where she was the First 3X All-American and the First Big 12 Player of the Year in Nebraska soccer History, Atlanta Beat Nonen was an All Star with and named Top 3 defenders in the WUSA, All Star Player for Fortuna Hjørring and led the team to its first, First place finish in over 10 years, Atlanta Silverbacks she was the First Player coach in Silverbacks semi-professional history and she led the team to one of its highest finishes ever, she was an All Star at FC Indiana and with Los Angeles Sol was a part of the National Championship team in 2009.
She was a member of the Canadian National Team, taking part in the 1999 and 2003 World Cups where she was named to the All-Tournament team in both appearances. She was also named twice as a starter to lead the back line in the All-World Team games 2001 & 2003.
Since retiring, Nonen has coached in the Youth, Olympic, Regional, National, Semi-Professional and Collegiate ranks.

International career

In August 2006 Charmaine Hooper and Christine Latham refused to attend two exhibition games against China and fell into dispute with team coach Even Pellerud. Nonen joined Hooper and Latham in publicly calling for Pellerud's removal. The faction alleged that he had pressured them to break their club contracts in order to join Vancouver Whitecaps and had tried to fix the outcome of a USL W-League play-off by releasing certain national team players but not others. Pellerud suspended the players and terminated their funding. In June 2007 an arbitrator ruled in favour of the coach. Hooper's replacement as captain Christine Sinclair strongly criticised the players' actions: "They let down their teammates and since then have done nothing to rectify it. I wouldn't want them as teammates."