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Hello,
My name is Michael Perkins and I live in Los Banos, CA where I coach our U11 AC Los Banos team and am also the Varsity Coach at Pacheco High School. I have been following the blog for a while now and first caught wind of Brian and Gary when I saw their video of the team playing Arsenal at the U12 level. I have been waiting for the course to open up again since I missed the first window and I am excited to have access to the materials here.
I am a converted soccer coach. I played Football, baseball, and basketball during my youth and coached football for a number of years. I got turned onto soccer during the 2002 World Cup and began following the US after that. From there my interest grew and I had the opportunity to coach my boys at a park and rec level. We were dissatisfied with the structure of the league so we moved the kids into a neighboring cities CYSA league and I was asked to coach. At that point I began taking licensing courses. After a year of driving back and forth an opportunity was available to establish a U8 travel soccer team, so we began play in NorCal as a Bronze team. We experienced success in terms of winning and losing, but primarily because we had a few really good players in attack. At that point I recognized that eventually they would starve our forward of service if we continued to play direct. We began evolving to develop a path to a more possession oriented attack. However, all the licensing and trainings (US Soccer, Fiorentina) that were offered did not really go into how you develop this style of play.
Seeing Gary’s video’s and following the blog has given me some direction thus far and has helped us developed to the point where we are currently. I am hopeful that the materials will help advance us further as we move into the premier level.
