Black Coaches Community
Vision Statement
The United Soccer Coaches Black Soccer Coaches Community shall be an advocate for coaches of color within United Soccer Coaches. The Committee is dedicated to all coaches of soccer through leadership, education, communication, and cooperation with other organizations. Uniting the global soccer community through United Soccer Coaches.
The Black Soccer Coaches Community includes coaches of color representing the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, South America, Europe and Africa.
Mission Statement
The United Soccer Coaches Black Soccer Coaches Community serves as an advocate for coaches of color within the soccer community. This community will promote the awareness of issues and opportunities for improving the participation of Blacks in the game of soccer. They will also help to identify, educate, develop, promote, and support black coaches to leadership positions within the global soccer community.
Get Involved
Would you like to see the advancement of Blacks in soccer? We encourage you to sign up to be involved in one of our Strategic task teams:
Project Implementation Task Team
Improve our ability to get things done completely, timely, and consistently
Increase Representation Task Team
Increase representation of Black coaches in leadership roles
Increase Value Task Team
Improve actual and perceived value of the group and it’s members
Increase Engagement Task Team
Increase the participation and engagement of members and partners
Better Communication Task Team
Improve communication frequency, delivery, and impact
Use the button below to fill out our Coaches Community Interest form!
Andrew Richardson
Black Coaches Community Chair
History
The Black Coaches Community (formerly the Black Soccer Coaches Committee) was founded in 1996 by Lincoln Phillips, former Howard University men’s coach and he served as the first chairman. Mike Curry was the next Chairman, Curry turned the chair over to former U.S. National Soccer Team and MISL player Desmond Armstrong. In 2005, Hylton Dayes, Former University of Cincinnati men’s soccer coach, was appointed chairman by the Board of Directors to fill Armstrong’s unexpired term of office. After Hylton Dayes term, Sam Okpodu, former Head Men’s Soccer Coach at Newberry College and Nigerian Women’s World Cup Head Coach, became the chair.
In January 2012, University School of Nashville head boy’s coach Daniel Gordon was appointed the chairman of the group by then-President Paul Payne. Gordon also served on the Board of Directors. After Daniel, United Soccer Coaches (formerly the NSCAA) appointed Kendall Reyes. In 2020 after Reyes, grassroots community soccer leader Nicole Hercules was appointed as the first female chair of the Black Coaches Community. In 2022, Andrew Richardson was appointed the new chair of the Black Coaches Community.
CONTACT
30 W. Pershing Rd., Suite 820
Kansas City, MO 64108-2463
816.471.1941