Tony H.

TONY HOWARD’S BIO
COACHING* Former Professional Soccer Coach-Women’s-Norcal Shockwaves (Palo Alto, CA) }WPSL}, Everton FC America (Dallas, Texas), {W-League USISL} * Former Professional Assistant Coach for United States Soccer Federation (USSF) Senior West Region-1997 National Champion Gold Medal Women’s Team 1997-99 & Miami Freedom (Miami FL.) {APSL}* INTERNATIONAL Guest Coach-trained with International Goalkeeping Specialist Frans Hoek, Goalkeeper Coach & Assistant Coach with FC Barcelona, Paul Cannon (former Aston Villa GK Coach)- current Middlebrough FC Gk Coach, Rich Hartis Goalkeeper Coach of Manchester United and Milan Sarovic of Grasshopper FC-Club Zurich Switzerland. * USA Guest Coach-trained with United States Goalkeeping Specialist Bill Irwin, Lincoln Phillips, Joe Machnik and Erik Yamamoto. * Studied and participated in training’s with National Teams from the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Sweden, Germany, Holland & Grasshopper-Club Zurich in Switzerland.
* Former Collegiate NCAA 1 Soccer Coach-Head Women’s Coach -Stephen F. Austin State University (Nacogdoches, TX.), Assistant Women’s Coach-University of Miami (Miami, FL.), Assistant Men’s and Women’s Coach-University of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA.)-Kendis Cup West Region Head Coach 1997-1999 National Champions 1997 &1998. NCAA 2 Soccer Coach-Head Women’s Coach-Clarion University (Clarion, PA). NAIA Soccer Coach-Head Women’s Coach Menlo College (Atherton, CA.), Concordia University Portland (Portland, Oregon). NCCAA Soccer Coach-Head Men’s & Women’s Coach Miami Christian College (Miami, Florida). -Produced 13 Academic NCCAA, NCAA 1 & NAIA All-American female and male student athletes. * Produced 9 NCCAA, NCAA 1 & NAIA All-American female and male student athletes. -Accumulated a Head Coaching record for women’s and men’s teams 165-55-29 (12 seasons). -Recruited and secured several USYSA ODP Regional and State players, Players Of The Year in Hawaii, Oregon, Houston Texas, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Sacramento California and International Talent from Jamaica, Canada, Japan, Argentina, Sweden, Haiti, Trinidad & Tobago, Norway and Mexico. * Guided teams to compete in three National College Championship “Final Four” Tournaments. * Directed women’s and men’s teams to participate in numerous collegiate U.S. Regional tournaments. * Directed several women’s and men’s teams to top 25 National NSCAA/Adidas Rankings. * Captured 7 collegiate conference titles in several regions of the United States. * Named coach of the year collegiately 6 times.

* Former Director of Coaching (DOC/Executive Director)-{USYSA)-OSDI (Portland, OR), Novato Youth Soccer Association (Novato, CA), San Mateo Soccer Club (San Mateo, CA), San Francisco Soccer Academy (San Francisco CA), Miami & Dallas Soccer Developmental Programs (Miami FL, Dallas TX) -USYSA National Championship with U-19 Girls Texas Longhorns Soccer Club in 2005* Started and Developed Soccer Club Programs in Dallas Texas (Everton FC of Liverpool England EPL), California- Northern (San Francisco Soccer Academy & San Mateo Soccer Club), Florida/Texas (Miami/Dallas Soccer Developmental Programs). 1990 U17 USYSA Girls National Champions Miami Lakes Optimist.

ODP/USSF National Team Coaching-Florida ODP-State Staff Coach-USYSA. October 2003-February 2004. California North ODP-Goalkeeper Coach-Sr. Girl's and Youth State Teams Boy’s and Girl’s -USYSA. February 1998-July 1999 and September 2001-2003. California North ODP-Assistant Coach U-15, 17, 18 Girl’s Teams-USYSA. February 1997-July 1999 and November 2001-2003. 1998-U17 Girls National Champions & 1999 -U23 Girls National Champions. United States ODP Region 4-Asst. Goalkeeper Coach-Youth Boy's and Girl's-USYSA. January 1999-July 1999. Pennsylvania West ODP-U-15 Girl’s Team Head Coach-USYSA. October 2000-July 2001. Pennsylvania West ODP-Goalkeeper Coach-USYSA. Youth Boy’s and Girl’s State Team. October 2000-July 2001. Oregon ODP- Assistant Goalkeeper Coach-Boy's and Girl's State Teams-USYSA. January 1994-February 1997. Florida ODP -Assistant Staff Coach-U-16 Girls Team-USYSA. January 1990-July 1992. Hawaii ODP State Goalkeeper Assessor -Boy’s & Girl’s 1998 & 1999. { USSF}United States Soccer Federation-U17 National Team Assistant Goalkeeper Coach 1998.

PLAYING* Former Professional-Semi Professional Goalkeeper-, Canton Ohio {AISL} Miami Freedom (Miami, Florida {APSL}-Portland Oregon, San Francisco California and Dallas Texas. *USSF -US East Regional Team All Stars 1987-Pan Am Games.Indianapolis Indiana.* NCAA 2 Soccer-St. Thomas University (Miami, FL.). First Team All-South Region & First Team All Sunshine State Conference Goalkeeper & Sunshine State Conference Champions. 1985-86. *NJCAA Soccer-Northeaster Christian Junior College {no known as Ohio Valley College, WV (Villanova, PA) NJCAA NJCAA REGION 12 ALL AMERICAN. 1983-85.*Annandale Boys’ Club (Annandale, VA) 1975-1983 Red Flames..1982-83 McGuire Cup USYSA U19 National Champions
LICENSE*USSF-United States Soccer Federation "B" License since 1997 *NSCAA-National Soccer Coaches Association of America "National Advanced Diploma.Premiere-1995

Select-Travel Soccer Player with Annandale Boys Club (Annandale Virginia) for 7 years and member of the USYSA National Championship Winning U19 McGuire Cup/4 year starter collegiately {goalkeeper} Northeastern Christian Junior College-Villanova Pa NJCAA/St. Thomas University Miami Florida NCAA 2-Professionally Canton Invaders 1986-1988 AISA/ Miami Freedom 1989-1991 APSL-3 Time Capped US National Team Player participated in the Pam Am Games in Indianapolis Indiana/5 Time Winning USYSA National Championship Winning Coach .

a soccer related warm up of skills and fundamentals/ building to technical session of approaches movement in a more dynamic matter/ending with a functional tactical component to make it game like situation.
Start with A Soccer Fitness Warmup with and with out the ball-Next work into Footwork-Specific Conditioning Ball Skills Workout Using Body Mechanics and correct techniques fundamentals in a repetitious fashion-Take What we have learned and advance the action to a passing and receiving mode to separate with explosion and purpose {possible shooting aspects may be involved depending on the activity}-IF this is a Goalkeeper Training start with Goalkeeper Soccer Fitness {moving side to side cross stepping/drop stepping/plyometric jumping}-Then build into all facets of receiving standing moving into gather balls on the ground on bounces in the air/build into straight ball high catching and drop step catching-build into deflecting {high balls, low balls traffic situation balls using one and two hand boxing out and open hand deflecting} difficult balls when there is no chance of securing or catching them /Build into low difficult ball situation work of collapsing to low ground balls bouncy ball air balls and forward diving-Then build into game like scenarios putting the goalkeeper under pressure to correctly work on decision making for the various shot/crossed/place/delivered balls in a very repetitious fashion-Build into other shooting scenarios and have the goalkeeper now work the various distributions {throws/punts/goalkicks/pass backs. End with a cool down gradually stretching the muscle groups that were addressed during the training {legs-calves-thighs-hamstrings-quads-arms-abdominals}