CARINE WONG-IRELAND
Carine's extensive knowledge of the global football industry gained from her unique playing, coaching and football management career where she negotiated her own player transfer from the USA to Liverpool FC, becoming one of the first foreign players in England. Carine was the first female to train youth boys professional Academy players in Hungary (See story) and was the only US female Founder, General Manager and Director of Coaching of leading girls US Soccer Development Academy and NPL Club, PSV Union FC.
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Carine is a graduate of Stanford University where she played for the Women's Soccer team in her Freshman year (Pre-Med). She holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Carine co-founded Soccerbook Consulting which operates globally global in the technical, commercial, financial investment, sponsorships/activations and employment areas of the the youth and professional game. As part of her consulting Carine has been GM and management consultant to US Soccer Development Academy, NPL and ECNL clubs for over 20 years.
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Carine has contributed significantly to the growth of women's football in the USA. She funded, created and operated highly regarded California girls youth soccer club PSV Union FC with husband Gary Ireland for 22 years, and has provided over US$2.5mil. in financial aid for local in-need youth players since 1996. Carine has trained, developed, advised and represented 200+ players to USA colleges, over 30 players to national teams. In 2005 he created, funded and coached/managed a WPSL Women's professional club “Union FC”, finalists of Las Vegas Silver Mug tournament in the first few months of operation. 


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She has arranged over 400 team participation in tournaments in 10+ US states and created, managed and coached bespoke team tours for North Carolina NCAA Women's Champions vs. Australia and New Zealand Women's National Teams and Queensland Women's State Team (see story) as well as games against girls Youth Academy clubs Liverpool, Manchester Utd, Everton, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspurs, QPR, Blackburn Rovers, Crystal Palace, Manchester City, Wolves, Leeds Utd. She created/coached/managed California FC's 2014 FIFA Women's World Cup tour vs Wellington Phoenix and Japanese club Shonan Bellmare (see story). She also co-manged boys professional Academy clubs MTK Budapest, Blsany, Slavia Prague and Admira Wacker.
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Carine founded, operated and consulted for various youth clubs and trained/advised/represented numerous players to US colleges, National and Professional teams. (See testimonials). She was instrumental training and placing players to over 50 US College and continues to prepare players to compete and study in US colleges.
For 2 years Carine sponsored San Diego Surf Cup, the largest, most prestigious youth soccer tournament in the USA and has owned/operated several college recruiting combines. (Learn More)
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Carine Co-Founded and is Executive Director of California based youth, college and professional player training and tour companies Dynamic Soccer (Silicon Valley) and Eclipse Academy (Southern California). Recently Carine co-founded Soccer Innovation Partners with women's soccer legend Anson Dorrance where they explored international professional player combines as well as small sided game formats. Carine continues to explore facility investment and development opportunities in North Carolina and California and provides advice and guidance to club and facility investors in overseas markets.
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Favorite players: Pirlo, ZIdane, Davids, Scholes, Ronaldinho. Ronaldo Nazario, Akers, Hamm
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Email carineireland@gmail.com
Call (650) 799 7984
Dylan N. Dewey