by United Soccer Coaches | Mar 18, 2020 | Advocacy Blog, Association News
Originally published in the March/April 2020 issue of Soccer Journal, this is a short Q&A with Nicole Hercules, Chair of the Black Coaches Advocacy Group. Tell us about your coaching history. I started working with “Flower City Soccer,” an inner-city soccer...
by United Soccer Coaches | Mar 10, 2020 | Advocacy Blog, Association News
Ending with a great list of players from the black community for our month long black history features, we are excited to continue to empower, educate and advocate for the USC Black Soccer Coaches Group through stories that are not just important to the black...
by United Soccer Coaches | Feb 27, 2020 | Advocacy Blog, Association News
In honor of black history month it is important to share multiple people that come from different countries and for this feature we honor the contributions of Nigerians and Nigerian-Americans to the beautiful game in Africa and around the world. It is estimated that...
by United Soccer Coaches | Feb 22, 2020 | Advocacy Blog, Association News
Thori Staples Bryan from Joppatowne outside of Baltimore, Md is our Black History Month featured star. Thori was a three-time First Team All-America soccer player at North Carolina State as well as being a member of the U.S. Women’s National team in 1995 and...
by United Soccer Coaches | Feb 19, 2020 | Advocacy Blog, Association News
Portland, Ore., also known as ‘Rip City’ for their NBA team, the Trail Blazers. Within this hip, rainy city lies a few trail blazers themselves, true to the definition. A “trailblazer” is defined as “a person who makes a new track through wild country; a pioneer; an...
by United Soccer Coaches | Feb 19, 2020 | Advocacy Blog, Association News
As we continue our Black History month educational stories we now stay close to home in the USA as we feature a pioneering soccer player who had so much talent. So talented that he was drafted directly out of high school by the NASL’s Minnesota Kicks, which traded him...
