Most of the continent’s richest teams do not employ a single full-time women’s scout. Others outsource recruitment to agents. The Euros have offered a rare chance to study up.
SHEFFIELD, England — Vicky Jepson has not found the driving all that bad. She has spent much of July on the road, racking up somewhere north of a thousand miles in only a couple weeks.
Her trajectory, at first glance, seems so haphazard that it is almost as if she has been trying to shake off a tail: London to Manchester, down to the seaside at Brighton, up north once more — to the unremarkable market town of Leigh — then back to the south coast, before retracing her steps back to Leigh.