Dr. John Thomas, Asst. Director of Coaching for the USYSA speaks to GolNoir

[MyHouse!]

You can find the interview here at

http://www.golnoir.net/usa/features/21/jt


http://www.golnoir.net/usa/features/21/jt/John%20Thomas1.jpg

[Ray Luca]

You posted this at other places on this site. It looks like your site consists of one page and you can't get the interview what gives?

Post the interview here and not the site it doesn't work.

[dadman]

You posted this at other places on this site. It looks like your site consists of one page and you can't get the interview what gives?

Post the interview here and not the site it doesn't work. The link worked fine for me; right to "14 Questions with Dr. John Thomas."

I won't post the whole interview, but here's the start:GolNoir: Tell us how you first became drawn to the Beautiful Game and a brief synopsis of your playing career.

John Thomas: I came to learn about soccer growing up in New Jersey in a small town called Jamesburg. I can remember the first day the bug hit me. I was watching a couple of kids from Central America play. I was in the fifth grade myself and they told me to come on and play. They were actually kicking the ball and controlling it as opposed to just kicking it like we normally do. I said, "Hey! This is OK." and from that point I just started playing the game. I think I was very fortunate to run into a couple of good coaches in our town when I was young. In our town, most of the young kids played soccer. We had divisions in our town, some folks living on one side of the tracks or the other but when it came to sports, everyone played together. The unusual thing was, our town was so small that all we had for athletics in our school system were soccer, basketball and baseball. We had lots of African-Americans playing soccer which was very strange when I think back...

[MyHouse!]

You posted this at other places on this site. It looks like your site consists of one page and you can't get the interview what gives?

Post the interview here and not the site it doesn't work.

I tested the links...they are working