Ian Barker is the Director of Coaching Education of UnitedSoccer Coaches, formerly known as the NSCAA, which was founded in 1941 and currently has 30,000 members. Barker has also served on the national instructional staff for U.S. Soccerand U.S. Youth Soccer. We check in with him as U.S. men’s national team general manager Earnie Stewart searches for a new U.S. national team coach who is supposed to implement a U.S.style of play. Stewart recently described his style of play vision as: “It has everything to do with the values that we have as Americans. What we think is important. We have great athletes that arealways on their front foot, that are aggressive, we’re are kind of like in your face. And that’s what we want to see from our players as well.”
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