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Late last year, Daryl Shore completed the 12-month process of being licensed by U.S. Soccer as a coach at the highest professional level.

He looked around at some of the other people in his graduating class and saw Major League Soccer head coaches and assistant coaches and decided on a course for his immediate future.

He wanted to be a head coach again.

It just so happened that old friend Peter Wilt was starting a pro team in Madison and was in the market for someone with a lot of coaching experience and a strong network for player recruitment.

On Thursday, it all came together when Shore was named the first head coach and technical director for the Madison Pro Soccer team starting play next spring.

“Everybody has aspirations of being in MLS, and I’d be lying if I didn’t say that, sure, I’d love to be the head man of an MLS team,” Shore said. “But not everybody can be. And an opportunity to work with Peter again, ... this is something that I felt like I need to be a part of.”