Dallas, TX - Youth soccer coach Jesus Garcia stated that he would be leaving his position as the head soccer coach for the u-14, u-10, and u-8 Highland Park Diablos in order to get a second job that would allow him to save up for the cost of taking the additional USSF coaching licenses he needs in order to continue coaching soccer as a career.
“Does anyone here know how to run a transitional rondo?”
“I just don’t have the money or the time to make the money or the ability to take the time off,” stated Garcia to The Nutmeg News. “I thought that I’d be able to figure out a way to make it happen, but I’m going to need to make a lot more money if I want to afford the tens of thousands of dollars it’s going to take for me to get up to the higher level of licensing.”
Friends state that Garcia is a well respected soccer coach who fully understands how to drill, train and get the best out of his charges. He just lacks the thousands and tens of thousands of dollars necessary to increase his license holding with the US Soccer Federation.
“I know he could be a great asset to the federation or to a club team,” stated good friend Ivan De León. “But the B license alone is three thousand dollars and takes 4 to 5 months worth of time including in person training sessions and all the previous licensing you need just to apply. He just doesn’t have the time to coach soccer and learn the tests that will allow him to coach soccer.”
Garcia, for his part, sees this as just part of the journey you have to take in order to try to make it to a professional level in the United States.
“I always knew that the path to being a coaching professional in the United States would involve me quitting soccer in order to take a job as a bartender so that I can try to save up a bunch of money to enroll in a bunch of semi-standardized testing that may or may not pan out in a few years and $15,000 later.”
The Nutmeg News will have more on this as Garcia gives up on his dream after finding out that the pro course alone is $10,000 and he needs to buy a new car because his Nissan Altima has 350,423 miles on it and he can’t make it for the closing shift on time if it won’t start during the winter.