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The Good, The Average and The Bad: Alan Koch Hiring/USL PRO Edition
Aaron Campbell posted a article in AFTN
THE GOOD: Ability To Work With Younger Players With the Whitecaps wanting to ideally field a USL PRO team that will consist of mainly players between 17 and 24 years old, Koch's history and experience will make him a good candidate for this job. These players are going to have to be pushed just right, there will be times when Koch will have to be brutally honest when they are struggling but there will also be times where he will have to be more of a friend that encourages the player than a coach. With young Canadian players like Marco Bustos, Kianz Froese, Caleb Clarke, Marco Carducci, Ben -
Koch's talents have been in demand before from professional clubs, so what was it about the coaching job with WFC2 that finally tempted him away from the Clan after seven years at the helm? "I've a lot of respect for the club. I've a lot of respect for the people that work for the club," Koch told AFTN. "I definitely have a very similar philosophy to Robbo. To move to the pro ranks when you don't have to leave home, or my adopted home, is obviously a lot easier. "I've had a lot of opportunities to go away and go live in another country and all that type of stuff, but those weren't the right -
"In all honesty, when it came to Alan, we didn't necessarily pursue him because we assumed he's in a good job, he's got security, would he want to take that chance and jump into the professional ranks where that same type of security isn't necessarily there? "But as a result of the work that he did on our college recruiting, he got to know our guys and we got to know him and it was a natural evolution. We were always looking at other candidates, but as time went on, it became clear that Alan was interested in the job and we were interested in him." Koch is well respected in the BC soccer com -
A touch of Barcelona magic in Southern Ontario. It’s the FC Barcelona influence that makes a Summer Soccer Camp mid-July so special. It’s five days of intense training with professional coaches from the club which today is rated the best in the world. And exposure to Barcelona scouts always on the lookout for that special local player. The CSL’s York Region Shooters are staging the camp, being hosted at the St. Joan of Arc field at Maple, just north of Toronto from July 9 to 13. It’s all put together by Barcelona-based Soccer Services with the five-day program designed by the
