On this week's United Soccer Coaches Podcast, presented by LeagueApps, host Dean Linke opens the show with United Soccer Coaches Foundation Scholarship & Grants Sub-Committee Chair Ralph Polson. Following Ralph, United Soccer Coaches Latino Coaches Vice Chair Art Hernandez interviews Director of HAPIR lab, Assistant Professor at Sam Houston State University Mayrene Hernandez. In the second half of this week's show, Dean chats with US Youth Soccer Senior Manager for Grassroots Dr. Sari Rose, North Oaks Blast Soccer Club Technical Director Joshua Okoampa, and LA FC Data Analyst Darian Ignatius. 


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Ralph Polson, Mayrene Hernandez, Art Hernandez, Dr. Sari Rose, Joshua Okoampa, & Darian Ignatius, Pres. by LeagueApps 8-3-23

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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.

Victor Fuster, Cody Bartlow, Edvaldo Pedro, Jim Froslid, & Humza Rehmane Pres. by LeagueApps - 4/25/24

Sue Ryan, Lexi Rudolph, Mike Weaver Pres. by LeageApps - 4/18/24

Don’t miss this week’s United Soccer Coaches Podcast with host Dean Linke as he visits with James Harte, who is running an amazing Champions League program for high schools in Florida. Up next we meet 30U30 mentor William 'Shap' Shapiro, and we finish with 30U30 member Devlyn Jeter, assistant women's soccer coach at Chicago State.

James Harte, William "Shap" Shapiro, & Devlyn Jeter Pres. by LeagueApps - 4/11/24

Don’t miss this week’s United Soccer Coaches Podcast with host Dean Linke as he visits with three of the men behind the documentary “Voice of the Game” about legendary head coach Manfred Schellscheidt (they are Jim Barlow, Tom McCabe, and Kirk Rudell).  Up next the Latino Soccer Community takes over with Mauricio Lozada and Art Hernandez, followed by new Northwestern men’s assistant coach Ronnie Bouemboue and we finish with 30U30 member Eric Klenofsky.

Ralph Polson, Mayrene Hernandez, Art Hernandez, Dr. Sari Rose, Joshua Okoampa, & Darian Ignatius, Pres. by LeagueApps 8-3-23

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