Dunivant is listed on their website as DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & SOCCER OPERATIONS. http://sfdeltas.com/club-people
Todd Dunivant is Director, Business Development and Soccer Operations for the San Francisco Deltas, so he's legitimately part of their corporate team. He's also all class all the time, despite his Galaxy connections. I think it would have been cool to play against him. EDIT: Blacktide beat me by a nose.
It was cool, and they were very classy -- although it obviously behooves them to make friends with people who play soccer in SF haha.
Other than when Doyle was assistant coach, I don't think he interacted much with Todd Dunivant. Didn't realize Todd went to Stanford. Guess that helped land him the job as the SF Delta's director.
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Andre Luiz, Ike Opara, Chris Leitch, Bobby Burling, Nana Attakora (@JazzyJ's bromance before TT), and someothers who I don't remember (Kelly Gray was in there in 2008)
Andre Luiz lives in Campbell. He is the Quakes youth academy U-14 & U-13 head coach.... Academy Coaching Staff | San Jose Earthquakes Andre Luiz Moreira Head Coach: U-14 & U-13
Oh come on, I was never that high on Attakora. I thought he was worth keeping around and underrated, that's all. It was nowhere near Tommy proportions. Probably the next most defended guy for me was actually Quincy. Not that he was the savior but I thought that he would be a good player in the league when a lot of people were saying that he wouldn't last in the league. And as usual I was proven right.
I think we are talking about back line guys. Andre Luiz is also nominally a back line guy. I think he was usually a CM.
I have heard rumors that Andre Luiz is unfortunately a poor academy coach and the quakes should probably fire him. He used to coach a palo alto team before my rec league games. One of the guys I play with is a coach and he criticized one of luiz's drills... he was having his kids line up to do the drill but only one was doing it at a time and the rest were standing around doing nothing.
That's too bad. Years ago, after I started helping out at practice, I realized my u12 daughter's club coach spent half the time lecturing the girls about strategy. No wonder they couldn't kick the ball...
Just curious, hypothetically,wouldnt the only way to measure a good academy coach be by the amount of players who would turn pro? I mean isn't that the overall point and goal of the youth academy?
LOL, when I played in high school in the late 70's, the ex-minor-league-baseball-player-turned- wannabe-General-Patton-as-soccer-coach, who I've subsequently realized did not understand the game at all, would make us do military-style boot-camp exercises punctuated by half hour lectures. Me and my teammates loved the lectures because it gave us time to rest up from the exhausting drills. The lectures were also bemusing because, even for forty years ago, they reflected a retrograde mindset: "They (school administrators) make me give you water breaks." Fortunately many of my teammates had soccer pedigrees and were willing and able to free-lance during the games, so we were formidable despite the fact the coach was a soccer nimrod and the best-conditioned athlete on the team (me) was also the worst soccer player.
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