Luca D.

Years of training experience: 2014-current ..........

Categories:
U8 Boys and Girls - U23 Men and Women (college, amateur, and pre-professional) .......... The skill/knowledge/experience level of the players I have trained starts with absolute beginners and goes all the way up through MLS Academy players! I have also worked with numerous professional players.

I hold a USSF coaching license, along with the following clearances:
-FBI Criminal Background Check
-Child Abuse History Clearance
-Sexual Harassment Clearance

Collegiate Athletics (captain), Amateur men's athletics, Pre-professional athletics, Semi-Professional Athletics, & lastly - the cherry on top - Professional Athletics!
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As a collegiate athlete I was a 4-year letter winner, 3 year starter, and 2.5 year captain.
Toward the end of my college career, I transferred into a new program that became ranked 8th in the nation, beating multiple top 10 teams (including the #1 ranked). That season, the program led the nation in every statistical category offensively. From that team, numerous players went on to have professional playing experiences.

I also received a scholarship offer to a D1 NAIA school.

Prior to my professional-level playing experience, I played for various amateur and pre-professional clubs in the northeastern/southeastern USA.

I have since moved on into playing at a professional level in Europe.

When we begin our training together, the primary focus will be on elevating your production and overall performance in games as quickly as possible. Essentially, we train to improve you without drastically changing the player you already are (we want to improve your performances, not change you...but we can touch on this more later when we connect).

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By touching on some key details in your approach to the ball, or the game, you will find more opportunities to produce for yourself and your team.

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The details will be those that you would not otherwise get from training on your own or with an inexperienced coach/trainer.

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Some aspects of your game that you can expect to improve on in our first sessions are as follow:

*Confidence keeping the ball at your feet while dribbling in open spaces or in 1v1/1v2 situations.
*Receiving the ball with variety of techniques and angles
*Turning, before and after receiving the ball (whether there is a defender on your back or not)
*Ball striking (passing and shooting)
*Balance
*Overall play with both feet

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We could do a thousand touches, 500 shots, skills moves and dribbling in cone patterns, though we likely won't since you should be doing those on your own time already- you also won't need to hire me for those (unless you're an absolute beginner or you truly find difficulty in the mechanics of the movements)!