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David Richardson's vision: Longtime Chicago youth coach on the 21st-century role of a coach, the MLS Next model and its next big challenge
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Friday, October 16, 2020
In the 18th century, David Richardson says, a coach was defined as ...
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The unique Rose Shoen: She started coaching boys as a teen, now runs the Sacramento club she founded
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Tuesday, October 6, 2020
While earning a degree in Spanish literature at the UC Davis, Rose ...
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UConn's Ray Reid commits to diversifying the college coaching ranks
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, September 28, 2020
Fewer than a dozen NCAA Division I men's soccer head coaches are ...
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Former Marine Corps drill instructor Rick Flores on mentoring coaches in New Mexico
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, September 21, 2020
In his soccer posts, he firmly believes that the best way to ...
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1980s star Kim Crabbe is dedicated to grassroots outreach: 'It's so important, for so many kids'
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Tuesday, September 15, 2020
In 1986 - after leading George Mason University to the NCAA title ...
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John Ellinger on U.S. youth soccer progress since the 1999ers, the DA's big impact, and high school ball
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Tuesday, September 8, 2020
John Ellinger, now Baltimore Armour boys academy director, played a major role ...
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Brian Tompkins on athletes fighting for social justice: 'I have more than hope. I have expectations'
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Tuesday, September 1, 2020
A coach can create "a culture of respect" but the hard work ...
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Tiffany Weimer on valuing the player's voice, inspiring more women to get into coaching, and her off-the-field outlets
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, August 24, 2020
Players know themselves better than coaches know them, believes Tiffany Weimer, who ...
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New England youth soccer requires safety strategy for pandemic that doesn't respect borders
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, August 17, 2020
COVID-19 has forced every soccer league and club to adopt new protocols. ...
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Julio Serrano leads Latino coaches group unified in response to COVID that has hit its members especially hard
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, August 3, 2020
Though nearly every member of United Soccer Coaches was affected in some ...
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U.S. Soccer Foundation's work more important than ever as pandemic widens disparities between kids with access to soccer
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Tuesday, July 28, 2020
As the nation begins to reopen - tentatively, and not at all ...
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Longtime Division I head coach Dean Koski on canceled fall sports: 'We can run and hide, or we can adapt'
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Last week, the Patriot League canceled fall sports. Immediately, Lehigh University men's ...
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Mike Lynch: College soccer makes American system the optimal model
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, July 13, 2020
College soccer provides educations that make those competitors very valuable in whatever ...
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Lesle Gallimore: The Girls Academy will listen to players
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, July 6, 2020
The highly regarded leader is the new (and first) commissioner of the ...
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The new era of college recruiting: COVID changes the process for coaches and players
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, June 29, 2020
The cancellation of showcase tournaments, campus visits and ID camps upended the ...
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Steve Gans on youth soccer's Wild West and the need for safeguards
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Thursday, June 25, 2020
The alphabet soup of competing leagues, even entire associations, means there is ...
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Nicole Hercules leads Black Coaches' Advocacy Group amid strife and hope
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, June 15, 2020
"I've always believed in collaboration, and soon we'll be in a position ...
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America Scores delivers wide range of virtual Soccer Summits for coaches of all levels
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, June 8, 2020
With its young player-poets isolated at home, America Scores built online channels ...
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High school comeback guidelines raise complex questions (Part 2)
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, June 1, 2020
In the weeks and months to come, coaches will learn far more ...
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How will high school soccer proceed? The NFHS provides three-phase guidelines (Part 1)
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Tuesday, May 26, 2020
No one yet knows if there will be high school soccer this ...
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East Coast's CCL is well-poised for new era of American youth soccer thanks to club-centric, high school-friendly approach
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Wednesday, May 20, 2020
The Club Champions League, founded in 1997, calls itself "the first club-to-club, ...
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A coach's world upended: Jon Bradley finds support and hope amid COVID-19 tragedy and disruption
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Like many men and women who make a full-time living from soccer, ...
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Once upon a time in America
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, May 4, 2020
Brothers and sisters started kicking around in the backyard, with each other. ...
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Pivoting during the pandemic: Portland Community FC strives to support its players and families
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Tuesday, April 28, 2020
With a goal of providing high-quality, affordable club soccer to low-income, immigrant ...
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The high school view (Part 2): How coaches can raise their game during the pandemic interruption
Youth Soccer Insider, Dan Woog - Sunday, April 19, 2020
Despite so many horrors, the pandemic gives coaches a chance to sit ...
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The high school view: Some COVID-19 consequences are clear, many others are not
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, April 13, 2020
In the best of times a high school soccer coach is a ...
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Clay Berling represented his magazine, and his sport, with grace and quiet passion
Soccer America Daily, Dan Woog - Saturday, October 7, 2017
He always discussed this great sport -- quietly, gently, intelligently. He won ...
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The day Cruyff came to town
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Thursday, March 24, 2016
While the soccer world mourns the death of Johan Cruyff -- the ...
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Bad Boys, Perfectionists, Musicians, etc. -- The Archetypes (Part 2)
Youth Soccer Insider, Dan Woog - Tuesday, September 18, 2012
I have coached probably 1,000 different players since my first youth team ...
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The Archetypes: Loners, Little Guys, Mathematicians, etc. (Part 1)
Youth Soccer Insider, Dan Woog - Sunday, September 16, 2012
The same boys show up again and again. Well, not the same ...
