Katayoun Khosrowyar

Katahyunne Laudanne "Katayoun" Khosrowyar (Persian: کتایون خسرویار; born 19 September 1987), commonly known as Kathy[4] or Kat Khosrowyar, is an Iranian-American football coach. She is better known as the former head coach of the Iran U-19 National Women's Football team.[5][6][7]

Katayoun Khosrowyar
Personal information
Full name Katahyunne Laudanne Khosrowyar[1]
Date of birth (1987-09-19) 19 September 1987[2]
Place of birth Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Position(s) Midfielder[3]
Youth career
Tulsa Soccer Club
Holland Hall Dutch
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2008 Carranza FC
International career
2005–2013 Iran
Managerial career
2018 Iran U19
2019–202? OL Reign Academy
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Khosrowyar was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to an Iranian father and American mother. She played for a then-highly-ranked club in Oklahoma (Tulsa Soccer Club). Khosrowyar also played varsity soccer, field hockey, and track and field at her private high school Holland Hall. She decided to move to Iran in 2005, during her first visit when she was only 17 years old after accepting to play for Iran.[8][9] In 2010, Katayoun was nominated by the Asian Football Confederation (The AFC) to participate in Project Future, a coaching program for soccer players under 30. After retiring from playing in 2013,[10] Kat earned a FIFA/AFC 'A' license in 2014, the first Iranian woman to do so.[11][12] The purpose, she tells Women’s Soccer Coaching, is to “put all my skills, abilities and experience under one umbrella”. It would need to be a sizeable umbrella.[13] Katayoun Khosrowyar has a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom and recently completed a second master's degree in Global Affairs at Rice University.[14]

Khosrowyar moved back to the United States in 2019 to become the head coach of OL Reign Academy.[15]

Awards

Khosrowyar has won the 2018 Women's Soccer United Coach Award, awarded to inspirational coaches in women’s soccer based on a public poll.[16][17] Khosrowyar was also nominated best coach of Asia 2019 alongside Japan's head coach Asako Takakura.

The Middle East and Central Asia

In 2011, she was a part of the 'Let Us Play'campaign led by Prince Ali bin Hussein of Jordan that helped overturn a FIFA hijab ban. FIFA allowed 'head covering for religious reasons for every Muslim female player in the organization’s member countries. This was critical for Iranian female football players to continue to play in FIFA competitions after being banned from playing during the second round of pre-Olympic qualifications.[18][19]

After the Taliban banned the participation of girls in sports in September 2021, Khosrowyar was part of a group that was formed to help a group of 80 people, composed of 26 members of the Afghani female youth team, to leave the country and pursue soccer careers internationally.[20][21]

References
  1. "University of Birmingham graduation ceremony, Tuesday, July 10, 2012". Birmingham Mail. Birmingham. 10 July 2012. Archived from the original on 25 February 2023. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  2. Younesipour, Payam (8 March 2019). "Women's Football Coach Sees Future "Presidents and Parliamentarians" in her Team". IranWire. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  3. "دختر تگزاسي تيم ملي فوتبال بانوان: به من مي‌گويند ماركوپولو" [Texas girl on the women's national football team: They call me Marco Polo]. Islamic Republic News Agency (in Persian). 30 March 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  4. "Class Notes: Kathy Khosrowyar '06". Holland Hall Magazine (Fall/Winter 2012 ed.). Tulsa, Oklahoma: Holland Hall. 3 December 2012. p. 35. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  5. Dagres, Holly (3 April 2018). "How an Oklahoman is scoring goals in Iran". Al-Monitor. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  6. "Katayoun Khosrowyar leaves Iran to coach Reign Academy". Tehran Times. 4 May 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  7. ""FOOTBALL SAVED THEM"". Common Goal. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  8. Spindle, Bill (25 August 2015). "In Iran, a Women's Soccer Revolution". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  9. "Katayoun Khosrowyar leading a women's football revolution in Iran". Sky Sports. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  10. Aarons, Ed (20 June 2018). "'The fact we exist is huge': Iran's women plotting course to world stage". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  11. FIFA.com. "Women's Football - News - The coach transforming IR Iran's women's game - FIFA.com". www.fifa.com. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  12. "Meet the Iranian-American leading a football revolution". The Independent. 3 June 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  13. "Tehran turnaround - Women's Soccer Coaching". OwlTail. 16 February 2022. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
  14. "Kat Khosrowyar". RICE UNIVERSITY. 14 June 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  15. "Katayoun Khosrowyar leaves Iran to coach Reign Academy". 4 May 2019.
  16. "IR Iran's Khosrowyar claims global coaching award". 1 April 2018.
  17. "Katayoun Khosrowyar wins WSU Coach Award, Presented by TeamSnap". 9 June 2018.
  18. "One woman, one goal: To make women's football in Iran a global powerhouse". 3 September 2018.
  19. "Iran's Khosrowyar among Women Football Stars Changing the Game". 6 February 2021.
  20. "FOOTBALL SAVED THEM". 31 August 2022.
  21. "Building a New Home After the Fall of Kabul: Afghan Refugees in the U.S." 28 April 2022.
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