Nate Weiss: Youth Development at VfB-Stuttgart

Osnabruck are in the 3rd division. Wouldn't be a bad place to go.

 

Hi everyone.. I thought I would update you all to my whereabouts at the moment. I have been in Germany training with some teams after the swedish season. I know maybe it seems strange to go to ANOTHER country, but since I was a kid I always wanted to play here, so I jumped at the chance. **I was training with Osnabrück for a while, but the coach was fired while I was there so things got complicated. **However I still have a chance to go back after the season if I perform well enough. **I just wanted to get my foot in the door here and get playing ASAP, so I signed with an Oberliga team. I signed with an option so next season if they get to regionalliga I will stay with them. In Bavaria the top 9 teams will go to regionalliga, so there is a good chance. The team I'm with is called "FSV Urlangen-Brück".

This American company IFX SOCCER helped me get all of my visa problems sorted so that I can get started playing quickly. They have also helped me negotiating with the club have been helping me with that. I just wanted to throw that out there for anyone aspiring to go to Germany, I think it's a good way to get in.
I decided to continue the video updates, with the thought that people would like to see what it's like here. I also have someone who can film
the training so it's even more in-depth. **There should be something on yanks-abroad soon, but I figured I would let you all know here.
here is a video plug for the vlog.**

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Congratulations, Nate, and best of luck.

 

this kind of stuff isn't possible to get reported, but in case
anyone out there wants to know.. today I passed my UEFA c license course in German after only being here 4 months and not speaking German before I came. So next season in Germany I will play for a better club, and also coach a youth team
as well... in case anyone out there wanted to know!

visca ussoccer

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Congratulations!

 

Nice

 

Nate Weiss did an IAmA on reddit.com today.

 

Good stuff.

Q: Do you think you'll ever be called up to get a cap?

A: I was actually moments away from it... when i played in Latvia we got to the 2nd qualifying round of Europa league. We played .fk molde from Norway, and if we won we would play Stutgart in the next round. We played home and away in Norway, and lost 2-2 on away goals... before the 2nd game against molde my agent called me to say he was contacted by ussf and that if we advanced i would be called into the next national team camp. We ended up not making it through, and a week later i tore he ligaments in my ankle while playing in a friendly against rubin kazan from Russia. My chance disappeared pretty quickly... however i hope to have another

 

Eh, I'm slightly skeptical that this is the whole truth...but cool IAmA nonetheless.

 

https://twitter.com/nweiss23

 

Agreed, it is dubious. Why would a decision on a player be made on how his team does in two specific matches? Either the player is good enough or he isn't.

Who knows, maybe it was the agent who was feeding him nonsense.

 

maybe he meant if we didn't go through? It could've been a scheduling conflict if his team had advanced. He made it seem like the injury was the thing that prevented him from getting called up.

 

He also said the 3. Bundesliga was better than MLS... I'm taking it with a grain of salt.

 

Transfermarkt says the "Weiß" who is currently with SpVgg Oberkotzau in Germany is our man Nate. He doesn't appear on the team's roster page, so I'm not sure.

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/nate-weiss/profil/spieler_150353.html

That guy played a half earlier this month.

http://www.spvggoberkotzau.de/woitschitzke-und-kocher-sehen-roten-karton/

@nswsoccer, any updates?

 

He is now a fitness coach for the team, I believe.

 

Nate is on the second team at German fourth-division club SV Seligenporten.

http://www.svs-seligenporten.de/fussball/2_Mannschaft.html

 

Really interesting read on Nate getting his coaching license in Germany. He compares German and American coaching and development.

http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/artic...es-rapidly-through-german-coaching-system-eye

 

Wow, UEFA B license already? Isn't that pretty advanced?

 

@bungadiri @Friedel'sAccent Now that he's coaching, let's move him to YA Academy.

Perhaps a new title, too:

Nate Weiss: Point Man at DFB-Stützpunkt

 

It's the second lowest coaching license of the German FA.

The German license are:
C license (counts as UEFA B license) - coach is allowed to coach Oberliga or lower and lower level youth soccer
B license (counts as UEFA B license) - coach is allowed to coach Oberliga or lower as well as work at youth academies or a DFB-Stützpunkt
A license (counts as UEFA A license) - coach is allowed to coach Regionalliga or lower or in the youth Bundesligas
Fußballlehrer license (counts as UEFA Pro license) - coach is allowed to coach at pro teams (3. Liga and above) or become the director of a youth academy

The C to A license each all take less than a month to complete, Fußballlehrer takes one year.

 

Danke.

 

He's taken a youth development job at Stuttgart:



https://www.vfb.de/de/vfb/aktuell/neues/junge-wilde/2021/verpflichtung-nate-weiss/

 

@bungadiri
@dark knight
Please change the thread title:
Nate Weiss: Youth Development at VfB-Stuttgart

Thanks!

 

Sounds like he's taking a bigger role at Stuttgart:

A largely untold 🇺🇸 story in the Bundesliga. Nate Weiss is set to take on a bigger role with the Stuttgart first team (under another American born coach in Pellegrino Matarazzo) as “player improvement coach.” Who is Nate Weiss? More to follow below.

— Derek Rae (@RaeComm) June 19, 2022

With Peter Perchtold having moved to assist Ralf Rangnick with the Austrian national team, a gap in the coaching structure has emerged. Weiss, originally from Brooklyn, NY was already working within the VfB Stuttgart system (since April 2021) but this is a promotion for him.

— Derek Rae (@RaeComm) June 19, 2022

Weiss has been in Germany for almost a decade, where he has earned his coaching badges & worked in various roles including in Fürth & Nürnberg. His speciality is individual training & improving player performance. He‘ll now be more front & centre with the first team.

— Derek Rae (@RaeComm) June 19, 2022

Weiss was touted for the main asst position at 1860 (3. Liga) under Michael Köllner but Stuttgart wanted to keep him & we can see why. As with Matarazzo, Weiss is an American who has taken the much harder road in a new country, (no MLS support system). One to follow this season.

— Derek Rae (@RaeComm) June 19, 2022