There is never a perfect time to step away from your team.

If you’re a head coach, there is always another game, another trip, another training session. And in professional women’s soccer, those demands last almost 11 months of the year.

But, as I tell my players, we’re people first — and when I became a dad, I learned the hard way what it meant to put the job ahead of my family when they needed me most.

So when my second child, Laia, was born a few months ago, I knew I had to do things differently. That meant taking five weeks of paternity leave from Gotham FC — currently the top-ranking team in the National Women’s Soccer League and 2025…

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