When Janko Emedi took a job teaching Russian at The University of Alabama in 1983, he pushed for the creation of a soccer program. Emedi, by all accounts, was a renaissance man. Having escaped his homeland of Yugoslavia with his family at the age of 15, he bounced around the U.S., first living in Chicago, then finding a home playing soccer at University of Alabama-Huntsville, then studying at the University of Indiana. It was there in Bloomington that Emedi first found a love for coaching, as a soccer coach at a local YMCA. From there, Alabama soccer took root. Prior to Title IX in 1972, women’s collegiate athletics had been essentially nonexistent, but now colleges had no choice but
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