Short Story Of Kevon Grant: American Youth Soccer Coach

Kevon Grant is a hardworking, passionate and devoted soccer coach. He is a head coach at super soccer stars, Los Angeles California, where he teaches kids the fundamentally of the beautiful game (soccer). Through his trainings, coach kevon has developed numerous attacking routines, he confirmed his faith in attacking football, stating that the key to players development was freedom. His players are given immense freedom to dribble and adopt to playing situations, instead of being restricted with two and three touches on the ball. His approach to give players freedom and his attacking routines are two of the key stone behind Grant’s success. He won the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) region championship working with the organization.

In accordance to developing soccer players, grant also focuses on developing his players as human beings. He wants them to learn that sportsmanship, togetherness and fairness are important to achieve excellence in life. Apart from developing his players, Grant is always looking to improve his knowledge of the game. He has a F licenses for coaching issued by U.S Soccer Federation (USSF), and he is committed to acquiring the next level. He admires former Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson. “ I admire sir Alex Ferguson, as it’s not an easy duty coaching the same club for 27 years and wining as many championship as he did.” Grant also reads Sir Alex’s methodologies to learn and obtain more knowledge. “throughout the years from reading Sir Alex methodologies one thing he said that will forever be ingrained in my mind is; If I were running a company, I would always want to listen to the thoughts of its most talented youngsters, because they are the people most in touch with the realities of today and the prospects for tomorrow.” Grant finds it important that one of the most successful coaches distinguishes, young players can immense imprint if their ideas are taken into consideration. He earned his B.S in Marketing from California State University Northridge.