{"id":230347,"date":"2026-02-25T17:14:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/bev-yanez-changed-her-approach-in-2025-and-has-racing-louisville-pointed-upward-equalizer-soccer\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:14:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:14:05","slug":"bev-yanez-changed-her-approach-in-2025-and-has-racing-louisville-pointed-upward-equalizer-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/bev-yanez-changed-her-approach-in-2025-and-has-racing-louisville-pointed-upward-equalizer-soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bev Yanez changed her approach in 2025 and has Racing Louisville pointed upward \u2013 Equalizer Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"mvp-post-feat-img\" class=\"left relative\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/USATSI_27192081-1000x600.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"1000\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"600\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!--mvp-post-feat-img--><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"mvp-feat-caption\">\u00a9 EM Dash-Imagn Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bev Yanez left no stone unturned during her first year coaching Racing Louisville in 2024. Or so she thought.<\/p>\n<p>When the dust settled, Racing finished 7-12-7, checked into the club\u2019s familiar place in ninth on the table, and missed the playoffs for the fourth time in four years since entering NWSL in 2021. Yanez remained confident in her ability to coach the club. She also knew that 2025 needed to be different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComing out of that 2024 season, I knew that something had to change,\u201d Yanez said in a phone interview last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy big thing when I first got the role was, I wanted to prove that I could do this,\u201d she continued. \u201cI wanted to prove that I knew what I was talking about. I wanted to provide all the tactics for the group to feel successful. I barely slept. 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