Merchant Services
 

WORLD CLASS COACHING 
International Coaching Seminar
Kansas City - February 22 - 24, 2008

 


 
Clinicians

Mauricio Marques - Brazil
Brazil has consistently produced incredibly skilled world class players.  Clube Atlético Mineiro is one of Brazil's top clubs and is well known for their excellent youth academy which has produced national team players like Gilberto Silva (Brazil National Team captain).  Marques will explain and demonstrate the training sessions and curriculum of the Clube Atlético Mineiro youth system showing why they are famed for developing skillful young players.  Marques coaches with Clube Atlético Mineiro and for the Brazilian National Football Confederation (CBF).  He was also the manager of the Brazilian National Futsal team in 2002 - 2003.
 

Anson Dorrance
The coach of a true "Dynasty".  His North Carolina Tar Heels are the current NCAA National Champions and have won 19 of the last 26 National Championships.  Dorrance also coached the U.S. Women's team that won the World Cup in 1991.  We really don't have space to even begin listing Dorrance's achievements, awards and accolades.  Click here for a complete bio.
 

Lauren Gregg
Lauren Gregg, the first woman to serve as an assistant coach for any of U.S. Soccer's national teams, was an assistant for the U.S. Women's National Team from 1989-2000. She was an assistant coach for the USA at the 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup in China, the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup in Sweden and assisted the squad that won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games.

At the end of the 1995 college season, Gregg retired as head women's soccer coach at the University of Virginia, where she earned a trip to the NCAA Final Four in 1991 and a total of seven consecutive NCAA tournament bids (1988-94). She was named the NSCAA Coach of the Year in 1990, the only woman to receive that honor. Gregg was the first, and one of only two women to lead a team to the NCAA Division I Final Four.

Curt Onalfo
The Head Coach of the Kansas City Wizards, Onalfo was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  As a player Onalfo traveled the soccer world playing professionally in France, Mexico and the United States and for the U.S. National team in Olympic and U-20 competition. A perpetual leader on the field, Onalfo co-captained the U.S. squad in the 1989 U-20 World Championships and the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

In addition to his distinguished playing career, Onalfo's has coached at the highest levels and has lead teams in MLS play and Olympic, Gold Cup and World Cup competition as an assistant coach for the U.S. Men's National Team in Germany 2006.