Vera Pauw has admitted that her family questioned the wisdom of her taking on a friendly double-header in the USA - in the wake of last year’s controversial NWSL report.
The Ireland manager was one of the coaches named in the report into allegations of abuse and mistreatment of players at several clubs in the National Women’s Soccer League.
Questions have since been raised about the methods used to compile the report and Pauw is now part of a class action lawsuit defending hundreds of female coaches across the US.
