Email:    brycsoccertraining@hotmail.com

Phone:   703.323.5747

If you plan to attend please RSVP to brycsoccertraining@hotmail.com and bring water, a ball, pen, and paper and wear athletic clothing.

Coach Bill also provides a free coaching handbook, download by clicking here coach handout.

 The 2010 Virginia Youth Soccer Association (VYSA) Awards Luncheon on January 23 in Arlington was a proud moment for BRYC U13 Boys Coach Nick Hoang as he received the organizations’ recognition as Boys Recreational Soccer Coach of the Year.  Nick is pictured at left, accepting the award from VYSA President Denise Edwards and VYSA Technical Director Gordon Miller.

Nick was born and raised in the DC metropolitan area.  He spent 13 years of his childhood playing soccer in BRYC.  After graduating from Lake Braddock Secondary School, he attended Virginia Tech where he continued to play competitive soccer at the club level.  After graduating from Tech, Nick returned to the area and immediately signed up with BRYC as a recreational coach.  Since that time, he has coached players from U10 up to U13 including many all-star teams along the way.  In addition to his services as a recreational coach, he also coaches a travel team.  Nick eats, sleeps, and breathes soccer.

"Growing up, I had two coaches in particular who mentored me during my entire childhood in BRYC soccer," Nick recalled recently.  "These coaches not only taught my teammates and me how to be good soccer players, but good people in general.  Looking back, these times on my soccer team are some of my fondest memories of my childhood.  I try to emulate this experience for my players (and their parents).  If, at the end of the season, my players and parents come away with something they didn’t have prior to the season whether that’s improved skills, increased knowledge/tactics, success on the field, or even things such as new friends and good memories....then I have succeeded as a coach."

Congratulations to Nick from all of us at BRYC.

In 2006 the U.S. Soccer Federation’s Coaching Education Department released a publication titled ”Best Practices for Coaching Soccer in the United States.”

At the core of the publication  is the belief that there is not just “one way” to teach soccer to players, nor is there just one style of coaching.  At the youth and junior levels, however, USSF believes there is a set of fundamental principles that should be considered by anyone coaching soccer. The starting point of these principles is that young soccer players require a certain amount of uninterrupted play, which allows them to experience soccer first hand. Young players should be allowed the opportunity to experiment, and with that, succeed and fail. A coach’s long-term goal is to prepare a player to successfully recognize and solve the challenges of a game on his or her own.

The 70-page “Best Practices for Coaching Soccer in the United States” coaching book serves as the sport’s definitive new player development guidelines, available here here as a pdf.  

Professionally bound print copies are also available for $15 (including shipping and handling) by dowloading the print copy order form and returning it to USSF.