Check out this week's United Soccer Coaches Podcast, presented by LeagueApps! Host Dean Linke opens the show with an interview between Lower Merion Soccer Club Development Academy Director Art Hernandez and U-17 UWSNT head coach Natalia Astrain. Next up, Dean chats with United Soccer Coaches Youth Programs Manager Cassidy Weiss following the release of the Recreation Coach Membership. Then, we feature an interview between former United Soccer Coaches 30 Under 30 Program Member Cynthia Cervantes and Olympic and World Cup Champion Brandi Chastain. On the second half of this week's show, Dean talks with MSD of Pike Township District Wellness Coordinator Isang Jacob, What Drives Winning Co-founder Becky Burleigh, and current 30 Under 30 Program Member Noah Rhodes. 

Art Hernandez, Natalia Astrain, Cassidy Weiss Brandi Chastain, Cynthia Cervantes, Isang Jacob, Becky Burleigh, & Noah Rhodes, Pres. by LeagueApps 2-9-23

Founded in 1941 and headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., United Soccer Coaches is the trusted and unifying voice, advocate and partner for coaches at all levels of the game. The largest community for soccer coaches in the world, we unite coaches of all levels around the love of the game and we elevate the game through advocacy, education and service. To learn more visit UnitedSoccerCoaches.org.

Sports

Laura Matsumoto, Garon Taylor-Tyree, Megan Ostrelich, Tree Beeckman, & Lauren Wolcott Pres. by LeagueApps - 5/23/24

Sugar Shinohara, Morinao Imaizumi, Willie Davis, Mira Novak, Rachel Comfort Pres. By LeagueApps - 5/16/24

Geoff VanDeusen, Sammy Boateng, Mario Felix, Neel Bhattacharjee, Miguel Rodrigues, Hannah Hoefs Pres. by LeagueApps - 5/9/24

We have another great show meeting five wonderful people playing different, yet pivotal roles in this game we love – soccer …We kick off the show with a visit from the chair of United Soccer Coaches API Coaches Community – it’s API Heritage Month – so it was good to catch up with Ashu Saxena … After Ashu, Michael Kodama from the United Soccer Coaches continues to introduce us to amazing member of the Faith Based Coaches Community and that includes the head coach of the Wheaton College Women’s Soccer Team Patrick Gilliam who will run a fascinating book club this summer geared around faith … Our 3rd guest is not a coach – but she is an amazing woman who has found a place where she belongs in soccer as a fan, as a media darling working with the stars of the The Shea Butter Podcast and a person who cares about other people even if they don’t look like her – talking about Eboni Christmas – who also has a great name by the way … Finally – we end the show the way we have been ending a lot of the shows meeting a mentor for the new 30Under30 class – this time we meet a man who has done a little bit of everything in our game and also does a little bit at every Philadelphia Eagles home game – Jason Neumann, who by the way several years back won the esteemed Mike Berticelli Award – Jason is great on today’s show and he sets us up to meet another member of the 30U30 class and now a high school soccer coach at Abilene High School Tiffany Van Hoose.

Ashu Saxena, Patrick Gilliam, Eboni Christmas, Jason Neumann & Tiffany Van Hoose Pres by. LeagueApps - 5/2/24

This week on the United Soccer Coaches Podcast, host, Dean Linke, visits with a member of the VAMA Coaches Community, Victor Fuster, the president of Stafford Soccer.  Dean then joins a member of the Faith-Based Coaches Community, Cody Bartlow, head men's soccer coach at Central Christian College in Kansas.  From there Dean pushes to the youth game with DKSC's Edvaldo Pedro, he goes down memory lane with former US Soccer press officer Jim Froslid and ends up meeting 30U30 member Humza Rehmane.

Art Hernandez, Natalia Astrain, Cassidy Weiss Brandi Chastain, Cynthia Cervantes, Isang Jacob, Becky Burleigh, & Noah Rhodes, Pres. by LeagueApps 2-9-23

Download our free app to listen on your phone