It has been an incredible year and all of us at San Diego Soccer Club want to thank our parents, our coaches and most importantly our players for hanging in there with us for this past year. THANK YOU.

Coach Napier shares Part 5 - the last piece of his multi-part blog, about his professional coaching career, his time in San Diego, and with SDSC.

Coach Napier shares Part 4 of his professional soccer career, about life as a coach and then manager at Bradford City in England.

“Become comfortable being uncomfortable” is something Coach Bolin’s players hear from him often. In the situation all of us are enduring, this message has never been more appropriate. Read more from Coach on this concept and ideas to combine soccer training, fitness and an overall great workout when training to get back on the field.

Coach Napier shares Part 3 of his professional soccer career, starting when he signed his first contract as an apprentice in 1961 and then moving to living life in America in 1979.

It’s funny how life works sometimes, where our prior experiences intertwine with our current situations in unexpected ways. Coach Aaron Jaffe shares how a childhood kitchen lesson prepared him for how to keep soccer going during quarantine.

At age 15 learning to become a professional soccer player is not easy, and it is just not about the playing field. John Napier shares more about his soccer journey in Part 2 of the Coach Napier Coaches blog.

These challenging times are all about family and community. For our soccer community here in San Diego and for our families, these times are all about how we treat each other, how we respect and support each other, and how we get through this and become stronger as individuals, family members, and members of both the local and global soccer community. SDSC is here and committed to our players’ welfare, both physically and mentally.

Quite often I have been asked about being a youth growing up in Northern Ireland and my path to getting to play professional soccer.  It’s a long story but may be similar to what many of you go through now. Growing up in the 1950’s was a totally different generation and many things have changed.  But I hope that my story can serve as an inspiration for many of you.

Something that kids can start to do, while they are unable to be on the pitch to work on tactical aspects of the game with their teammates, is to watch and analyze some professional games and start to develop their tactical awareness and positional understanding to a greater degree. Coach Mike Lopez shares some tips.