Professional Soccer Coach for MSI Classic Team Girls

[Anonymous]

Hello, I'm working with MSI Classic too, but this group is very resourceful and I bet I will get good advice.

I'm trying to find out if I can get any websites/socials, names, or leads for professional soccer coaches in the Washington, D.C. / Bethesda area. Ideally, a club level coach who has the desire to develop a team of girls transitioning from recreational soccer - 3 years together with one year of MSI Classic 11v11.

Ideally, we would place the coach ASAP to work with players available different times through the summer in small groups, 1/1, etc. as coach available to strengthen individual technical skills and fill our team to 18 players by August. We have about 10-14 committed, but would like to get to 18 players. Even better if the coach may be able to help provide contacts for possible player leads, such as players wanting an easier travel schedule, but competitive play. We are looking for strong 7-8th grade girls to practice in the Bethesda/Chevy Chase/Silver Spring area.

We have other strong MSI supporters/volunteers and can get more willing to step in, but we need the professional coach with time for practice 2 days a week for 90 min, we will add a conditioning day for 3 days.

I suspect the biggest struggle will be managing game schedules between travel and Classic. I am eager for encouragement or any other advice if you have "been there, done that" of trying to keep a team together rather than split them up into established teams.

[Anonymous]

You might try contacting Renzo at Juventus DC Metro. They have teams in classic. They also have teams playing travel in EDP. Perhaps they can add a classic team under their umbrella. One of my son’s played travel with them a few years back and I loved the positive environment. However I am confused by your comment about managing game schedules between classic and travel. Are you hoping to have the one team play in 2 leagues concurrently? I’m not sure that’s possible. I had one son who played classic years ago. Perhaps you can play in the MSI classic league but add in a few travel tournaments for balance. Thats what my son’s classic team did (they played Div 1 and were at the top). Eventually that team disbanded when half the boys wanted to move to travel for better competition and preparation for HS.

[Anonymous]

If you are 7h-8th grade and still in MSI classic, it would be better to focus more on academics. Even a professional coach won’t help

[Anonymous]

You’d be better off taking the whole group to a Club that handles all these things for you

Adds the coaching and additional teams
Opens up to adding a few like minded family’s

But the cost will be higher

Anything where you are going to pay a coach is going to cost more

There are plenty of Clubs that can assist on the journey

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are 7h-8th grade and still in MSI classic, it would be better to focus more on academics. Even a professional coach won’t help

Oh shut up. OP, ignore this asshat.

[Anonymous]

If you are currently playing Classic and working with MSI, you probably already know that MSI offers this as a service (MSI coaches to coach Classic teams).

If you are a rising U14/8th grade team, there are rumors of a couple of the current teams possibly folding — you might ask MSI to put you in touch w these teams because you may be able to combine to get a full roster if they are folding due to inability to field a full team. With respect to the idea of taking the whole team to a club — the current Brit Am team in this age group is following their coach to a new club, so Brit Am may be looking to start from scratch for this age group. Also Juventus, MD Fusion, Canter Soccer, and LESC do not currently have teams in this age group, so may also good options.

If you’re a rising U13/7th grade team, I think the challenge of fielding enough players still applies for the parent run teams — the jump to 11v11 is challenging — so MSI might still be able to connect you with other teams in a situation of looking for more players (though the roster cap of 18 might make it difficult to combine two teams that are just short a few players). I think most of the clubs mentioned above have teams in this age group, but I think I’ve seen other parent run teams use Top Rank Soccer and the MD Bobcats for professional coaches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You might try contacting Renzo at Juventus DC Metro. They have teams in classic. They also have teams playing travel in EDP. Perhaps they can add a classic team under their umbrella. One of my son’s played travel with them a few years back and I loved the positive environment. However I am confused by your comment about managing game schedules between classic and travel. Are you hoping to have the one team play in 2 leagues concurrently? I’m not sure that’s possible. I had one son who played classic years ago. Perhaps you can play in the MSI classic league but add in a few travel tournaments for balance. Thats what my son’s classic team did (they played Div 1 and were at the top). Eventually that team disbanded when half the boys wanted to move to travel for better competition and preparation for HS.

Thank you! Sorry to confuse... I meant that I am sure a coach who is with both Classic and travel may have some conflicts on THEIR schedule, but we can work with that. Travel being priority. (sub coaches etc.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You might try contacting Renzo at Juventus DC Metro. They have teams in classic. They also have teams playing travel in EDP. Perhaps they can add a classic team under their umbrella. One of my son’s played travel with them a few years back and I loved the positive environment. However I am confused by your comment about managing game schedules between classic and travel. Are you hoping to have the one team play in 2 leagues concurrently? I’m not sure that’s possible. I had one son who played classic years ago. Perhaps you can play in the MSI classic league but add in a few travel tournaments for balance. Thats what my son’s classic team did (they played Div 1 and were at the top). Eventually that team disbanded when half the boys wanted to move to travel for better competition and preparation for HS.

Thank you! Sorry to confuse... I meant that I am sure a coach who is with both Classic and travel may have some conflicts on THEIR schedule, but we can work with that. Travel being priority. (sub coaches etc.)

Ali (also at Juventus) May be able to provide a trainer through her company Pivotal Play to run practices. Pay by the hour. But you would need to coach games. This is what we did and it worked out great!