West Ham United: She's faced 'barriers' as a female football coach, but Nicole Farley wants to take her career to 'the highest I can go'

By George Ramsay, CNN

Updated 0820 GMT (1620 HKT) April 6, 2022

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(CNN)Nicole Farley readily admits her industry is «cut-throat,» but that does little to dampen her ambitions of reaching the top.

A football coach who has worked with youth and academy teams on both sides of the Atlantic — Chelsea, Arsenal and Reading in England and LA Galaxy and New York Red Bulls in the United States — Farley's goal is to gain her professional license.«Coaching with the first team manager, somewhere on that grass,» she tells CNN Sport. «It could be the male professional game or the female [...] The highest I can go.»Farley is currently based at Premier League side West Ham having arrived last year as the