Argura Soccer Academy

continues to grow! At the tender age of 16, my soccer coaching career took off and the high school soccer coach gave me the responsibilities that helped me develop player fundamentals and also practical skills to play the game. I was unsure of these practices that he taught me, but being passionate about the game, I decided to take on the responsibilities as a player. I asked questions, did research and also stayed under my coach’s wing to learn more about coaching. In my first year of coaching, my school team won the high school soccer championship. After two years of high school coaching, my uncle who coached a club soccer team decided to retire from the game and gave me the responsibility to manage his team (the players ages ranged from 20-34).I decided to take on the challenge again but it was pretty scary at first. It was a bit difficult at the beginning because the players felt, that I was too young to coach them. But after seeing what I could offer the team as a player and as a coach they eventually started to work with me and accepted me as an integral part of the team. They knew of my playing ability because at the age of 16 I was the youngest player to make a place for myself in the International team and I had also won the best player award in the country at 17 years of age. By the age of 18 I was contacted by a soccer school in England to further myself as a player, but my family convinced me to go to the US for further studies instead, where I would also have the opportunity to play soccer. During my time at the university, I was only able to play at the local club soccer as American football was the dominant sport and soccer was only starting to develop within that US State, at that point of time. The University I attended started a women’s soccer team, from which I was made the assistant coach. I was the assistant coach from 2002-2007, where I also did one on one coaching with the players because they felt they needed to sharpen their skills further. Due to the player’s desire to learn more I was able to further develop my knowledge of the fundamental and practical part of coaching because I truly wanted to help the players shine in the sport. During these school years, I also coached a high school boys’ soccer team for one season. Because I was able to shape some of the student’s mental character, playing skills and fundamentals of the game, the school wanted to hire me as a full-time coach and as a teacher. I had to refuse because I was finishing up my Master’s Degree and I was also still coaching at the University. When I was finishing my Master’s Degree, the head coach of the University Women Soccer team offered me the job as the head coach. As I was engaged to get married and moving to Australia, again I had to turn down the job. I arrived in Australia in 2007 and started to play in a higher level of soccer than when I was in the US. My first team was a Premier League team, Mitchelton FC in Brisbane. In 2008, I was offered to coach the club under 16 boys and that season we went undefeated and won the championship. In 2009, I coached Eastern Suburb women team and we made the semifinals. From my time in Australia, I had coached from 2008-present, coaching ages from 5-40+ years old players. In 2017 I won the women city league 3, Grand Final with Bayside United in my first year with the club. That was the first time they had made it to the Grand Finals since the club was established in ???? Due to my love for the game and having a great passion to see players develop to become greater players, I decided to start a Soccer Academy. We will be starting in 2018 where we can teach kids as well as adult players the fundamentals and practical game. We would also like to educate parents on the fundamental part of soccer and how soccer can help them build and increase their relationship with their kids on and off the field. We will be looking to have birthday parties, seminar classes/courses for parents, soccer clinics during the school holidays and one on one skills development for players. Argura Soccer Academy is dedicated to promoting coaching education to players and parents from all ages.