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The ZEE Goalkeeper Academy, Port Orange Soccer Club, Stetson FA, Stetson University Men’s Soccer Daytona Soccer Club, Daytona State Men’s Soccer and the City of Port Orange team up for a Goalkeeper/Striker clinic to raise funds for the HADC (Help a Diabetic Child) Foundation. Monday October 14th 2019 (no school in Volusia County) from 9.00 am to 11.00 am at…

I firmly believe hate is a sign of weakness, envy and fear. Haters hate on you because you’re doing what they cannot, something they wish they had or they’ve attempted to accomplish in the past but failed doing so. Let’s go back two weeks and bring up where a goalkeeper academy student parent took me to the side at an…

Wonderful meeting this morning with Cheryl Jenkins and Ted Clifford Directors of the Volusia Count division of “Help a Diabetic Child Foundation”. The ZEE Goalkeeper Academy has always been close to children effected by this illness because living with Type 1 Diabetes presents daily challenges for all children that have it, but it is only compounded for children that lack…

It is said that many coaches who job-hop could be trying to get out of a negative situation, or they could be that negative situation and the club/organization are letting that coach go. Exactly how often can you hop before you tarnish and burn your bridges? If you’re a job hopper and seeking employment, any experienced Director of Soccer Operations…

Let me start saying that I have never lured goalkeepers or parents from other goalkeeper coaches or academies and in these two years of running my own Goalkeeper School I have brought in more than 35% of the goalkeepers in my county and beyond county and state lines. I started off with 7 keepers and shortly after I was surrounded…

Soccer in the US isn’t like it is in Europe. Here you must Pay-to-Play and the costs depending on the club can be over $3,000 a year just in tuition, tournament and uniform fees. What I want to talk about today however has a lot to do with soccer but in this case it’s 100% free. The Internet! and in…

If you want something done, do it yourself! Over the years that’s what I have always done with anything soccer related! For some reason anything that I gotten involved with (soccer club, academy, school…) there has always been that percentage of sloppiness. There is always a figure that has an important role in the process of success that is sloppy,…

Our most insane dreams of goalkeeper academy ownership often involve the dreams of a gleaming new facility built just the way we want. The biggest issue for most of us to seeing that insane dream become reality is the funding. But if you think you can raise the doe, then I’d suggest it’s time for you to decide whether the…