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Reign FC's Vlatko Andonovski to replace Jill Ellis as USWNT coach

Vlatko Andonovski is expected to replace Jill Ellis as coach of the United States women's national team, according to a source close to the process.

Sports Illustrated originally reported the agreement, with Andonovski to be announced Monday in New York.

Andonovski, 43, becomes the eighth person to hold the U.S. job on a permanent basis and the first to do so as a product of a domestic women's professional league. Currently the coach of Reign FC in the National Women's Soccer League, Andonovski won two titles with FC Kansas City and is one of three people to hold head coaching positions since the league's inception in 2013.