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Based in Kansas City, Kan., the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) is the largest coaches’ organization in the United States. In addition to a national rankings program for colleges and high schools, NSCAA offers an extensive recognition program that presents nearly 10,000 individual awards every year. It fulfills its mission of coaching education through a nationwide program of clinics and week-long courses, teaching more than 4,000 soccer coaches each year.
Hugo Pérez was one of the best soccer players in the North American Soccer League, but when the association folded, he played indoor soccer until he could, hopefully, join the U.S. national team for the 1990 World Cup. 108 When he was excluded from the national squad, it caused much controversy and raised the possibility that Latino soccer players were being slighted by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). So the purpose of LASCA became, according to Fonseca, “to call ...
This spring, those brave new coaches get a much-needed handbook when longtime youth coaches Lindsey and Tim Blom release the lighthearted Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Soccer (Human Kinetics, May 2009). Part of the popular new Survival Guide series, Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Soccer hits details from establishing team goals to in-match coaching. Besides an obvious age difference, what differs between coaching youth soccer and adult soccer?
