Category Archives: Leyva

Pre-season update

February 13, 2010 – 1:24 pm

Returned from Belek, Turkey where we trained twice a day for 3 weeks. Made good progress in team building, defensive tactics and general fitness. Between sessions, team meetings, individual meetings, videos, had no time to post any updates (sorry to all who wrote to me asking for updates).
Saw Russia U-19s tie 0-0 and lose 0-1 [...]

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Evaluating talent

December 30, 2009 – 6:58 pm

In North America many coaches place premium on physically large, athletic players.
Most of my players tend to be smaller, quicker, with small turning circles. One of my players, Mexico international Fatima Leyva, has played for me for the last 5 seasons and according to 2 WPS coaches is too slow and has “no change of [...]

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