text:  On the outside, Thomas Rongan was a successful football coach. In his youth, he'd played with some of the best-known names in the game. But back in 2004, his 19-year-old stepdaughter, Nicole, who had a football scholarship to university, died in a car crash on her way to football practice. With so many football connections, you can imagine they were very close. Her death hit him hard, but his experience in American Samoa was a turning point.