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Just wanted to thank you again for such a wonderful course. It was a great experience and I believe that you may have saved my soccer career. I was seriously debating about whether I was going to continue coaching anymore. You have re-energized me and have given me hope that the youth of az will get proper player development under your direction. I take coaching seriously and realize that coaches are role models for our youth and that we can have a tremendous impact (hopefully positive!) on them and the way that they develop into young adults on the field as well as off the playing field. I will give you my support in anyway that I can and will faithfully spread the word of your program to other coaches.

Your inspiration was a shot in the arm for me, and it came just at the right time!!

I wanted to take a second and thank you very much for this weekend's course. I learned many things and you made it thoroughly enjoyable each step of the way. Your discussion about the game and your views about player development were spot-on in my opinion. Apologies for my lack of fitness, especially on Sunday - I may not have looked it, but I was still enjoying myself!

Thanks again, you have a new fan down in Tucson - best of luck and welcome to Arizona!

I just wanted to say “Thank you” for a fun and educational experience last weekend in Tucson. With your European background and cultural perspective on football, you bring something to the table Youth Soccer in the US badly needs.

Based on the licensing rules I understand that I will have to hold my E license for 12 months before I am eligible for a D license, which is fine. However, would it be possible to participate in a D class before that (without being eligible for the actual certificate)? I am coaching U13 starting August this year.

Regarding educating parents and parents coaches and maybe engaging more parents in educated coaching; may I suggest that you invite yourself to hold 1 - 2 hour sessions at club level where you address the U6, U8, U10 coaches in particular about some of the fundamentals and the philosophy of Youth Soccer. I don’t know if your schedule allows for this, but I certainly believe it could be a low-threshold introduction as well as server as a vehicle for recruiting participants to the E classes.

I want to thank you for spilling all of your creative wisdom upon all of us candidates that attended your “D’ License course last week. The volumes of imaginative information have inspired me and my style of coaching in a way that I have never thought was possible. You made the course a purely enjoyable learning environment. Your lessons were anything but a culmination of drills that lack meaning and substance. You provided us with real time situations that would encourage any player to think about the game, and the situations that actually occur on the pitch. Your creative teaching will be a long time asset to new and old coaches here in the valley, and most importantly to the players they teach. I would recommend this course to any coach that wants to expand his frame of mind. It has something for everyone, from the new coach to the most experienced. The knowledge gained is completely out of the box and true to the game.

Respectfully,
Michael DeMello

Thank you for the course. One thing I forgot to mention today, you have made me think about the game and more importantly the players in a hole different way.

Your lessons are very thought provoking and really make me think about things, why and what I am doing. I have been very inspired by your passion, intent, and love of the true development of the the player.

Your vast experience, knowledge of players and the game, your thoughts of true development of players, has made me think what I am doing as a teacher and rethinking a lot of things I do.

Peter Beirne
Scottsdale Blackhawks "

I wanted to follow up with you on the National “D” License Course which I attended last month that you instructed. First and foremost, I learned more than I ever expected to. The way you conducted the course was professional, very well thought out, and kept me intrigued and excited to learn more.

I felt you used many different approaches that were not only educational, but interesting. You put us in drill learning situations on the pitch, had us physically participate in activities, gave valuable classroom tutorials, we viewed film footage from professional coaches in real coaching situations, we studied recommend book material from US Soccer, and you had “out of the box" thinking discussions which we all participated in. It was a complete triangulation of soccer and educational information.

When the class was over I felt so good about taking it. I knew had really accomplished something to make me better as a person and a coach. I am proud of myself. Without the knowledge that you provided in the course I know I would not be the coach I am aspiring to be. I have a thirst for more knowledge and cannot wait to take the experience and interpret it to my U-11 and U-12 boys.

I know all of my peers who took the course feel the same way that I do. I will recommend this course to any coach I come across that needs a better perspective and more knowledge on the pitch.

Once again, it was my pleasure taking the course and you have done the soccer community an invaluable service by sending me and 8 others into the world of coaching.