Sebastien D.

I attended highschool in France where I was an assistant coach for the U-12, U-13, and U-14 teams for Grenoble FC. While attending Boston College I played on the varsity team. As a side job I helped run the training sessions for the BC club soccer team. I have played soccer my whole life at the highest level possible up through College, and have trained kids for the past 8 years.

As a teenager in the US I was on the ODP team throughout high school. Won regionals twice with the Boston Blast team. While in France won the U-18 regional championship in the Rhone-Alpes. Attended Boston College where I played on the varsity soccer team for 3 years. BC competes in the ACC, arguably the most competitive D1 conference in the nation.

Unlike many coaches around, I have actually competed at the highest level possible outside of professional leagues. I know how good you have to be to play in college, and I know the things you have to do in order to get to that level. I will be able to analyze a player's strengths and weaknesses, and then be able to conceive traning sessions designed to target those weaknesses, because I have been doing the same thing to myself successfully my entire life. I will bring a mix of first hand experience, hard work, and fun to my training sessions, and guarantee to make the player I am coaching better. As a child I attended many years of private training sessions myself and so have experience from that end as well. My sessions will be divided into four segments. Passing drills to start off combined with a warmup. This will be followed by skill drills where I will have the players go through various moves and techniques. This will be followed by a competitive segment which will include keep away, 1v1s, and other games. My final segment will invariably consist of some sort of conditioning as this is one of the most crucial elements of the game. Each session will be different but overall my sessions will aim to develop a player's skills, awareness, soccer IQ, movement, and conditioning.